From Skibbereen to Tokyo: How Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy delivered Olympic gold for Ireland

From Skibbereen to Tokyo: How Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy delivered Olympic gold for Ireland

Belfast Telegraph

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In August 2016, there was roughly 9,000km between Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy on that fateful Friday morning when Irish rowing broke through a glass ceiling, the former winning Ireland its first ever Olympic medal in rowing, the latter watching him do it from a bar in Skibbereen.

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