Kerry beer garden has 'thrown training off course' says extreme swimmer record holder

Ultra Marathon Swimmer, Nuala Moore, Dingle, County Kerry, on Pedlar's Coom, Conor Pass, with her dog LG, where she trains daily in the lake enclosed in the Mountain.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan/story Anne Lucey

A world-renowned extreme open water and ice swimmer and Guinness World Record holder has claimed her training regime for new challenges was badly affected by the opening of a beer garden at a pub near her Co Kerry home.

Dingle-based swimmer, Nuala Moore, is among a group of local residents involved in a planning row with the owners of Bob Griffin’s Bar over an unauthorised beer garden at the back of the pub.