Dubliner Barry Murphy could have turned his back on swimming and considered retirement after not being selected by the Olympic Council for the 2008 Games in Beijing while others of lesser credentials got in ahead of him.

“TRAINS all booked. Now trying for a bus from Fredericia to London.

It may sound like just another fishy tale, but it’s true – a Danish trawler netted a German submarine on a Nato exercise off northern Denmark, navy officials said.