RTÉ's Ken O'Shea on his love of long-distance swimming
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CORK journalist Ken O’Shea is an executive producer in RTÉ … but he’s also a fairly impressive hobby swimmer. Ken is also the first man to ever swim from the Fastnet Rock to Crookhaven, having always harboured a dream of swimming up the channel between the Alderman Rocks and Rock Island, and walk up the steps at the pier into O’Sullivans for a pint! He did just that, and a lot more, in his relatively recent sea swimming endeavours. He told podcast presenter Siobhán Cronin all about it, on a zoom call from his Dublin home. This episode was produced and presented by Siobhán Cronin, with editing by Tony O'Shaughnessy. *** Thanks for listening to The Southern Star's From A to Sea Podcast. Please be sure to like, share and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Listen to our previous episodes by clicking here. For stories like this and more, pick up a copy of this week's Southern Star or subscribe online via www.southernstar.ie/epaper. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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