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Mon 07 Jul 2010Happy 'couple' strike again in Sneem
SKELLIG BOATMAN John O’Shea, and his friend, musician Aoife Desmond, have scooped their third Irish wife-carrying title in an ancient sport which has its roots in stealing women as part of a courtship process in Scandinavia and the Baltic states.
The pair took just under one minute and 13 seconds to complete a course which included water obstacles in Sneem, Co Kerry, on Saturday, beating a field of 14 other “couples”. They recently came a respectable sixth in the world championships held each year in Sonkajärvi in Finland.
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