Dubliner Walsh bids for glory in Boat Race

A DUBLINER will become sporting royalty across the Irish Sea today – whether he finishes in the winners’ circle or not.

Martin Walsh will become the first Irish rower to contest the 2010 Xchanging Boat Race in over 20 years – and just the 13th ever – when he sits in the number two seat for Oxford University today.

Around 250,000 people are set to line the banks of the River Thames to look on for the annual four-mile duel between Oxford and Cambridge, a showpiece of the English sporting calendar.