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Eoin O'Farrell

When Things Get Tough,
the Tough Get Rowing

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir, Contributor
June / July 2018

May 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Four young doctors team up for a transatlantic row for a good cause. What takes 32 days, 22 hours and 5,500 kilometers to complete? If you’re the four young men who set a new record when they arrived in Antigua on January 16, the answer is rowing across the Atlantic. “We had calluses on our hands and our calf muscles had wasted away so much that it took a couple of days … [Read more...] about When Things Get Tough,
the Tough Get Rowing

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