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Group hope for new world record in Ireland to Wales swim Northern Irish men swimming from Carne pier across Irish Sea
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Undated handout photo issued by InfinityChannelSwimming of a group of swimmers from Northern Ireland known as the Oa Giants who are hoping to have set a new world record for a swim from Ireland to Wales. Photograph: InfinityChannelSwimming/PA
A group of Northern Ireland men are hoping to have set a new world record for swimming from Ireland to Wales.
The Oa Giants swam 116km (72 miles) from Co Wexford to the Pembrokeshire coast in 34 hours and 25 minutes.
A compulsory question on the higher-level home economics paper, which focused on how âhealth and wellbeingâ and âresponsible livingâ influence our food choices, has received a negative reaction from students. The question is worth a quarter of the overall grade.
âStudents are usually given a table which they can write about,â said Margaret Kinsella, ASTI subject representative and a teacher at Bunclody Vocational School in Co Wexford.
âThis year, they were given an infographic and they just werenât expecting it. They were asked about health and wellbeing and then, separately, about responsible living. They found the concepts ambiguous and hard to separate between.â
Hereâs the thing about Davy Fitzgerald. Heâs not for changing.
Not for you, not for me, and not for Wexford as he turns up the dial with Championship in sight. A draw here in Belfast was far from the deflating sense a team might have got a few years back.
They had to come through plenty of hardship to escape with a point after Antrim hit the front for the first time in the game with Shea Shannonâs goal after Neil McManus displayed an otherworldly awareness to spot him free in space.
By that stage, Wexfordâs manager was leaning over the perimeter fence, on the outside looking in after referee Patrick Murphy sent him off in first-half injury time after his protests over a series of line balls against Antrim manager Darren Gleeson.