Sailors swap sea legs for rainy céilí mór

SAILORS are more used to having sea legs than dancing feet, but participants in the round the world yacht race were still keen to experience céilí culture yesterday.

In the second day of the Cork Clipper Festival’s residence in the city’s harbour, local land-lovers and old sea-dogs locked arms to take part in a midday dance-off at Albert Quay.

The event, organised by members of the Cape Breton yacht and those from the Cork Clipper to celebrate transatlantic Celtic links, took place as the traditional Irish summer weather of drizzling rain and plastic rain-macs replaced the glorious sunshine of previous days.