Profile: Skibbereen Rowing Club

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Newsworthiness: five rowers from the small club won medals at the European Championships last week

Afew days after the O’Donovan brothers had returned home from Rio de Janeiro with Olympic silver medals, the Southern Star newspaper put together an impressive supplement on Skibbereen Rowing Club. It was filled with photos of a town celebrating, and stories such as the time Gary threw a punch at Paul and ended up ...