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Dr. Karen Weekes, a sports psychologist from Kinvara, Co Galway, has become the first Irish woman to row across the Atlantic solo. Dr. Weekes, who wants to inspire girls and women, arrived in Barbados after an 80-day trip that began in Gran Canaria. ....
After 81 gruelling days travelling 3 000 miles from the Canaries, sports psychologist Dr Karen Weekes was given a champion’s welcome as the first Irish woman to row solo across the Atlantic when she arrived in the Bridgetown Shallow Draught just before 7 last night. The tuk band was out-voiced by over three dozen singing and screaming Irish visitors who had taken the much more comfortable journey to Barbados to … ....
A lecturer at the Kerry branch of the Munster Technological University has become the first Irish oarswoman to make a solo transatlantic crossing.Dr Karen Weeke. ....