From A to Sea – The Southern Star Sea Swimming Podcast

Ciarán Seawright - The Water School

CIARÁN Seawright runs the Water School at Pearson’s Bridge near Kealkil – the school his father built to share his love of water with others. The pool is a wonderful ame

Women & Water: Recorded live at Bandon Town Hall for the Banshee Festival

The latest edition of the From A to Sea podcast was recorded in front of a live audience at Bandon Town Hall during the recent Banshee Festival. Organised by Marguerite

Orlagh Patterson on her charity swim for LauraLynn

Cork woman Orlagh Patterson recently undertook a 1.8km charity swim around Sandycove Island outside Kinsale to raise funds for the LauraLynn foundation, Ireland’s only ch

Hotelier and daily sea swimmer Dena O’Donovan

Hotelier Dena O’Donovan is a businesswoman, musician, entrepreneur and … daily sea swimmer.  Having spent her childhood summers on Inchydoney Beach, the Clonakilty woman

Justin Crowley - organiser of the iconic Galley Head 10km swim

Hairdresser and Clonakilty native Justin Crowley is one of the people behind the iconic Galley Head 10km swim that takes place every year from Red Strand, past the lighth

Award-winning ice swimmer Carmel Collins

Carmel Collins is a swim coach, award-winning ice swimmer and has just completed the Fastnet swim. Based near Cork city, she swims regularly at Sandycove in Kinsale, and

Ossi Schmidt on the 'most scenic open water swim in Munster'

OSSI Schmidt is a legend in Open Water Swimming – he was involved in starting the Irish Open Masters Swimming Championships, brought the Global Open Water Swimming Confer

Niall Kenny on why Cork needs a Lido

NIALL Kenny is an open water marathon swimmer and a Cork native. But, most importantly, he is the man behind the campaign for a Lido in Cork. He joined Southern Star edi

Underwater cameraman Ken O'Sullivan on making documentaries in the sea

KEN O’Sullivan is an Irish underwater cinematographer, film maker, author, diver and swimmer. As well as completing documentary series' for RTÉ, Ken was cameraman on BBC

Swimming in Schull with triathlon coach Sarah McKnight

SARAH McKnight is a Londoner who moved to Schull after meeting a Cork man.  She's a swimming teacher, an open water swimming coach and a level one triathlon coach. McKn

Nuala Moore on swimming in the world's most dangerous waters

NUALA Moore is a force to be reckoned with – and the sea knows that! Nuala’s earliest memory is of jumping off her father’s fishing boat in Dingle and swimming back to s

The swimming women of Iceland

THIS week’s From A To Sea podcast is very close to Southern Star editor Siobhán Cronin's heart. Since the 90s she has been visiting Iceland whenever she could get the ch

Pamela Deasy on the Union Hall swim and how the sea helped during her recovery from cancer

PAMELA Deasy is a force to be reckoned with. The Union Hall woman, who grew up by the sea, is a great ambassador for West Cork.  Through her work with the RNLI, she has

RTÉ's Ken O'Shea on his love of long-distance swimming

CORK journalist Ken O’Shea is an executive producer in RTÉ … but he’s also a fairly impressive hobby swimmer. Ken is also the first man to ever swim from the Fastnet Roc

Great friends and the Great Fjord Swim

ONE of the huge benefits of sea swimming for Star editor Siobhán Cronin, aside from the mental and physical boosts, is the opportunity to spend time with friends. On the

Two swim coaches on their love of West Cork's water

ON this week's podcast Star editor Siobhán Cronin welcomes two swimming coaches, Gráinne Caulfield and Poppy Bament, who join to chat about how the rising popularity of s

The men behind the iconic Fastnet Swim

ON this week's podcast, Southern Star editor Siobhán Cronin is joined some of the men behind the now world-famous Fastnet swim; swimmers and coaches Nathan Timmons, Steve

Easkey Britton: surfer, author, scientist and activist

EASKEY Britton is an Irish surfer, author, scientist and activist is the latest guest on From A to Sea, The Southern Star's podcast series all about the sea, swimming and

Journalist & author Kathy Donaghy

Southern Star editor Siobhán Cronin is joined by journalist & author Kathy Donaghy to talk about depression, miscarriage and how swimming has helped heal her.   Donaghy

Total Immersion swimming coach Melissa Duncan

Southern Star editor Siobhán Cronin speaks to Melissa Duncan – a 'total immersion' expert and fellow sea swimming fanatic – about a shared love of the sea, building her o