Historic Ocean Rower Takes Over Ireland Twitter Account

8th February 2017

Gavan Hennigan celebrates his arrival in Antigua after setting a new Irish solo Atlantic rowing record Credit: Ben Duffy

#Rowing - Just days after completing his 5,000km solo row across the Atlantic, Gavan Hennigan has taken control of Ireland’s national Twitter account for a week.

On Monday 6 February, Hennigan — who normally tweets @soulogav — was given the keys to the @ireland account that’s been administered by WorldIrish for the last five years.

Afloat.ie’s Rower of the Month for January has been posting messages and images from Antigua in the Caribbean, where the fleet of competitors in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge continues to stream in.

But like the best @ireland hosts, he’s also engaging in conversation with the Twittersphere, most recently retweeting their photos of favourite places for adventure in Ireland.

Hennigan will continue to tweet from the Ireland account till this Sunday 12 February.

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