From freediving to fundraising - How a Mullingar man in Egypt plans to support Pieta House

Dave McGowan on a hike near Dahab, South Sinai. This week he plans to walk for 24 hours and hopes to cover a distance of 100km.

If reading about Westmeath-born record-holding freedivers who plan on walking 100km for charity is your thing then you have come to the right corner of the internet.

Dave McGowan ticks all those boxes. The Mullingar native shot to prominence in the sport at the AIDA Freediving World Depth Competition last September at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt where he plunged to a depth of 71 metres and wrote himself in Irish history books in other disciplines.