Bulking up for a record Swift swim across the Irish Sea

HE’S Swift by name and now he’s hoping to show he’s also Swift by nature.

Bulking up for a record Swift swim across the Irish Sea

Twenty-four-year-old Jim Swift is hoping to make the record books by swimming from Ireland to Wales in August.

The postgraduate student says he’s looking forward to the challenge of the ‘mere’ 54-mile swim.

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