Pensioner’s shark tale takes bite out of records

A PENSIONER and a predator have between them established what could be an Irish record.

When 70-year-old Joe Waldis went fishing off the Loop Head, he never expected to have an experience every bit as thrilling as Hemingway’s Old Man And The Sea yarn.

It was “the fight of my life” in landing the sixgill shark weighing almost half a ton, Joe said.