O’Leary’s mixed emotions

It was a bittersweet prize-giving for double-Olympian Peter O’Leary at the newly refurbished Kinsale Yacht Club late on Saturday evening.

After four-days of intense racing in the Covestone Asset Management Sovereigns Cup, he was collecting the overall trophy as winner of the 1720 Sportsboat class, judged to be the most competitive of the ten classes taking part.

And while it was an O’Leary receiving the prize, it could and arguably should have been another family member on the podium except for the hand of fate and a worn piece of rigging.