Have a swimming time at a Cape Clear island retreat

WHO buys houses on islands? Well, active, outdoors types for one.

The restorer and now vendor of Tig Neill on Cape Clear, John Kearney, was never going to be stuck for a way to get to his family’s well-serviced island base – he’s even swum out to the island, through some Ireland’s most treacherous currents.

That seven mile swim – from Baltimore out past Sherkin Island to Cape Clear – took a gruelling five hours, but he got a just reward. While staying on Cape to recover, he met Vivienne Ring who was working there in a B&B for the summer. Love blossomed, businesses grew and marriage followed and they expect their third child next month.