Cork pair scoop world wife-carrying championship title

AN Irish man and woman have beaten the Finns at their own game.

They upstaged the very best the Nordic tribes could throw at them to win this year’s World Wife-Carrying Championships staged in Finland.

The Cork duo aren’t actually married, or even engaged – but the Finns didn’t seem to mind.

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