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Sat 09 Sep 2010Solo currach run to raise funds for whale and dolphin rescue
BRITISH ADVENTURER and broadcaster Monty Halls is to row a currach solo from the Aran islands to the Connemara mainland to raise funds for a rescue system for whales and dolphins.
Halls, who is nicknamed “action man Attenborough”, has spent the past six months in Roundstone, Co Galway, filming a new Great Escapeseries for BBC2 television.
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