Keating completes Irish Sea swim

Five celebrities including Boyzone singer Ronan Keating have completed a marathon fundraising swim across the Irish Sea.

Five celebrities including Boyzone singer Ronan Keating have completed a marathon fundraising swim across the Irish Sea.

Olympic medallist swimmer Steve Parry led the group as Keating, TV presenters Jenny Frost and Jason Bradbury, and Strictly star Pamela Stephenson all touched land on a beach just north of Wicklow pier at 8.18am.

They left Holyhead in Anglesey, North Wales, at 9pm on Tuesday night.

The 56 nautical mile charity relay was in aid of Cancer Research UK.

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As the tide pushed the swimmers further south than expected, the group took a boat back up the coast to the Forty Foot in Sandycove, where Keating’s father Gerry and sister Linda were among a crowd of supporters gathered since sunrise to meet them.

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