Students returning from six weeks at sea: 'Everything is different, everything has changed'

Conor Walsh, Crosshaven, one of the crew members of the Jubilee Sailing Trust tall ship Tenacious, greeting his parents Nick and Sue while keeping their social distance after he arrived in Cobh on the return to Ireland having been being at sea for a month. Picture Denis Minihane.

Conor Walsh and his Irish crewmates have come ashore after a month at sea and now find themselves in a "weird" new world.

"I went in for a hug and everyone was backing away from me," Conor, 16, said not long after he and eight other Irish crew that had been dropped off in the Port of Cork by the tall ship Tenacious.