More than 500 swimmers braved the waters of the River Lee in Cork on Saturday as part of the annual 2km Lee Swim.

A British endurance swimmer has spoken of being protected from a shark by a pod of dolphins as he swam one of the toughest stretches of open water in the world.

An Estonian has begun a trip around the world in a Toyota Land Cruiser that he turned into an amphibious vehicle that will cross land, oceans and rivers on a 60,000km journey.

Open water swimming legend Stephen Redmond will be honoured at the elite sport’s first global gathering in Ireland later this year — the first time it has ever been staged outside the US.

World record-breaking swimmer Steve Redmond has offered a cash reward for the safe return of a stolen laptop, which contained photographs and videos of all his epic swims.

‘Passports — Globalisation in Contemporary European Video’ is an exhibition of video art in the Glucksman Gallery, UCC, curated by Chris Clarke.

Sheer grit, hard work and the unwavering support of the people of West Cork helped Steve Redmond achieve his Oceans Seven dream, says Eoin English

History-making endurance swimmer Steve Redmond may be back on dry land but he is set to take the plunge again within weeks — this time for charity.

Extreme swimmer Steve Redmond is considering a third attempt to become the first person to complete the epic Seven Oceans challenge after ferocious tides forced him to abandon the last leg in Japan yesterday.

Giant squid, stinging jellyfish and sharks — not to mention 15ft high swells — are among the challenges facing swimmer Steve Redmond when he attempts the final phase of his gruelling Ocean’s Seven Challenge in Japan next week.

A Frenchman who lost his limbs in an accident braved strong winds and currents to swim from Papua New Guinea to Indonesia, in the first stretch of a mission to swim between five continents.

Marathon swimmer Steve Redmond certainly looks like a fish out of water as he gets suited and booted for his upcoming Late, Late Show appearance tomorrow.

Six down and one to go: Ireland’s Steve Redmond has just completed the sixth of seven monumental swims that will make him the most successful endurance swimmer of all time.

NEVER mind the 12ft waves, the dangerous tides and the dehydration — just watch out for the sharks.

CRAMPS, heavy swells and a 26-mile swim along the West Cork coast from Baltimore to Schull, taking in the Fastnet Lighthouse, didn’t deter marathon swimmer Steve Redmond.

Little Britain star David Walliams and Olympic rower James Cracknell completed their Sport Relief swim to Africa today.

Spanish police have passed on to Interpol a photograph of a girl taken by two Spanish tourists recently in Morocco which the couple suspect could be of missing British girl Madeline McCann.

Clear skies and only a slight breeze made conditions almost perfect today for the competitors in the 87th Liffey Swim.

A 13-year-old girl will be the youngest competitor to ever take part in the Liffey Swim today.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero today said that his government was committed to building a high-speed train line to North Africa in a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar.

Survivors from a 40-member group of illegal migrants have accused Greece of throwing them into the sea off the Turkish coast, Turkey’s coastguard said today.

Spanish police intercepted more than 300 Africans who tried to enter Spain illegally at the weekend after sailing in packed rubber boats.

Spanish police today stopped 49 North Africans trying to reach Spain illegally in a small boat.

TWO people died and 14 are missing after a boat packed with Africans capsized yesterday while trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands, officials said.

Two people died and 14 are missing after a boat packed with Africans capsized today while trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands, officials said.

Rescue crews found a boat crammed with 41 would-be immigrants, including four babies, off the Canary Islands, after they made a mobile phone call to say they had been adrift for three days.

Spanish coastguards are searching for seven people whose boat capsized as they attempted to enter Europe illegally from the Canary Islands.

Morocco – home to most of the suspects in the Madrid train bombing – is teeming with some 100 al-Qaida-linked cells that are capable of suicide attacks, and pose Europe’s biggest terrorist threat, Spain’s leading anti-terrorism judge has testified.

Rescue teams were combing the rubble of mud-and-stone houses today after a massive earthquake killed more than 550 people in a desperately poor region of northern Morocco.

MORE THAN 300 people, mainly woman, children and the elderly, died as they slept when a powerful earthquake struck northern Morocco in the early hours yesterday.

Rescue teams have recovered the bodies of 20 people off southern Spain following a shipwreck involving would-be immigrants last weekend, officials said.

Rescue teams have recovered the bodies of 20 people off southern Spain following a shipwreck involving would-be immigrants last weekend, officials said today.

Five “groups of kamikazes” – 14 attackers in all – carried out the deadly series of suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco’s commercial capital, killing 28 people, the interior minister said.

Three Saudi Arabians have been jailed for 10 years by a Moroccan court for leading an al-Qaida plot to attack British and US warships.

Ciaran Giles, SPAIN has activated a costly system of radars and extra-sensitive cameras with night vision along its southern coast in a bid to crack down on trafficking of immigrants and drugs between Morocco and Spain, the government said yesterday.

COAST guards discovered the bodies of 13 people believed to be would-be immigrants who drowned trying to enter Spain clandestinely yesterday.

Spain was today waiting for Morocco to respond to its pledge to withdraw from a disputed Mediterranean island if the Arab nation also agreed to stay off.

Spain’s Foreign Minister today offered to withdraw troops from a disputed Mediterranean island recaptured from Morocco, but only if Morocco promises not to reoccupy it.

Outraged Morocco has dubbed a surprise military assault by helicopter-borne Spanish troops who recaptured a disputed Mediterranean island an act of war.