Donal Buckley, English Channel Solo Swimmer, 2010

For the thousand people+ who tracked my website yesterday and sent all Gook Lucks and Congratulations, a deeply felt thanks. For my family and friends and supporters. It started so well. For so long, I was fighting the tide. However after conditions got really bad, the boat rolled on top of me, and I was…

Liam Maher, English Channel Solo Swimmer, 2010

Many of you are swimmers and so this is old news, but for the rest Liam Maher, first member of Eilís’ 2010 Channel Solo swimmers was successful yesterday with a fantastic time of 13 hours 11 minutes. My words for him are unnecessary, so a simple “Well done, we’re proud of you”, will have to…