Cork-based garda in Channel swim challenge
A Cork-based garda has set himself the gruelling challenge of crossing the English Channel.
Danny Coholan will swim more than 30 miles through its chilly waters during the first week of September.
The 30-year-old, based at Anglesea Street Garda Station in Cork City, is hoping to complete the journey from Dover to France in less than 16 hours.
If successful, he will be the first Cork man and Garda to complete the swim.
The Kinsale native will line up on August 30 to await favourable weather and tide conditions, and has been given until September 5 to attempt his swim.
He will raise funds for the Kinsale branch of the RNLI.
Approximately 120 people per year attempt to swim the Channel between the months of May and October. Of these, an average of 30 swimmers complete the task. Only 811 people have succeeded.
Although a swimmer all his life, Gda Coholan only took up competitive swimming just two years ago.
