Ocean to City race organisers hope to make a big splash

Michael Moynihan

Padraig Ó Duinnín, manager of boatbuilding venture Meitheal Mara, said the race was a long-standing idea and they grabbed the chance to bring it to fruition this year.

"In 1992, a crew from Cork Jim Conroy, Frank Conroy and myself won a similar race in London, and the idea of something similar here was stewing away.