Killaloe Woman Swims English Channel

A Killaloe woman is back home in Clare after completing a childhood dream by swimming the English Channel over the weekend.

Rosie Foley set of from Dover just before 8 o'clock on Saturday morning, and arrived at a beach in France nearly sixteen hours later.

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The swim was 22 miles in length, slightly shorter than the length of Lough Derg which she swam just a few eeks ago.

However, Foley, who is a sister of Munster coach Anthony and a former Irish rugby international in her own right, says this was a very different challenge.