“I never thought Cork would ever finish,” says Nuala Moore of that wonderful part of this coastline which she navigated in 2006.
Moore was then one of six swimmers who undertook a round Ireland relay swim of 1,330 km in 2006.
Since then, Moore, from a fishing family in Dingle, Co Kerry, has become a Guinness world record holder twice over, with several world firsts. She was a member of a relay team that swam the Bering Strait from Russia to the USA, and she also swam off Cape Horn, taking on the meeting of the oceans in perilous waters.
Moore spoke to Wavelengths about what inspires her and what defines her, and she first recalled jumping off a pier at Slaidín near Dingle lighthouse when she was very young – and discovering, though she couldn’t swim, that she knew how to get out of the water. Part two is here
