What did you do during the pandemic? This trio built a boat 

Enterprising women spent only a few hundred euro constructing a currach that will help them reconnect with the sea

The Baidín Beoirs, a group of women who built a currach over lockdown. Pictures: Yvonne Coughlan.

A group of women who built a currach for the first time over the pandemic have successfully launched their vessel from a beach outside Kinsale, Co Cork.

Dinny Wheeler, one of the ‘Baidín beoirs’ who built the boat, said that the pandemic showed people who lived by the coast the incredible beauty and resources on their doorsteps.