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Tue 10 Oct 2007Raising the cashThe legions of people you see at marathons in the brightly coloured T-shirts emblazoned with the name of some charity or other pretty much always fall into one of two categories: those who were running a marathon anyway and decided to use it as an opportunity to raise some money for a favourite charity and those who were motivated exclusively by the desire to generate some cash to get their runners on.Ronan Doohan, a Dublin-based Clare man who ran Dublin last year, falls into the latter category having decided to take part only after his newly born son, Senan, had required major surgery at Temple Street and he became aware first hand of the hospital's need to generate funds.