Steve set for hero’s welcome after seven oceans success

Extreme swimmer Steve Redmond will get a hero’s welcome in Cork tonight after becoming the first person to complete the epic Oceans Seven challenge.

“It’s just a dream come true. My family, the team, everybody who was behind me, they just never gave up,” the exhausted but elated father of two said from Japan.

Steve, 46, from Ballydehob, Co Cork, has spent three years pursuing his dream to complete swimming’s equivalent of the Seven Summits in mountaineering.