Swimmer’s 13-hour ‘warm-up’ tour of Cork coast

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.

For the Ballydehob athlete, now almost halfway through a gruelling tour of the world’s toughest oceans, this was merely the warm-up.

Redmond is the only person to have completed the swim, which began in Baltimore, passed Sherkin Island and Cape Clear, circled the Fastnet Lighthouse and ended in Schull.