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ADVENTURER AND AUTHOR Tim Severin passed away yesterday aged 80 at his home in West Cork.
Born in India in 1940, Severin became renowned for retracing legendary journeys of historical figures such as Marco Polo, Genghis Khan, and Sinbad to name a few.
In Ireland he is often best remembered for his ‘Brendan Voyage’ across the North Atlantic in a skin-covered boat.
In 1976, Severin was part of a five-man crew who set out in a leather-clad boat from the Kerry coast to row the Atlantic.
The voyage aimed to prove that an Irish monk, St Brendan, discovered America 900 years before Christopher Columbus.
We are saddened to hear of the death of Tim Severin whose Atlantic crossing inspired The Brendan Voyage. In 2013, with Liam O'Flynn and Shaun Davey we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the first performance of The Brendan Voyage. Tim was a gentleman. May he rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/SC0b8fMeE9
— RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (@RTE_NSO) December 18, 2020
The boat, made from ox-hide on a frame of oak and ash, reached Newfoundland in 1977 and now resides at Craggaunowen museum in Kilmurry, Co Clare.
He is survived by his wife Dee, daughter Ida, son-in-law James Ashworth, and his two grandsons George and Guy.
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All for it, isn’t in amazing how quick they can draft up a bill for primary legislation but can’t draft up a bill for other issues in the country which need to be addressed just as urgently
@Rab.c.nesbitt: You look like ya whip the guitar as house parties and everyone wants to die.
@Brian O’Brendan: sit boo boo sit
@Brian O’Brendan: Have you never heard of Rab?!?!?….. Showing your age!
@another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec: he’s showing his age ok if he doesn’t know who Rab is, hes only a pup
Just ban them 100%
@Trump23: and create a lucrative black market, because prohibition is soooooo successful
The war war on vapes will go like the war on drugs, a monumental failure
@Arthur Brophy: Not a good enough reason not to ban them
@Arthur Brophy: 100% agree with the war on drugs being a complete failure but as long as they keep vapes regulated and legal for adults the black market won’t thrive. they shud legalise and regulate drugs for adults too..
i see donnelly concerned with the health risks. when is he going to tax fast food and junk food for obese people?
@Niall English: and Netflix!!! Sitting down to watch a good movie of a winters night…. should be banned
All the laws in the world are useless if they are not enforced. O’Connell Street, scroats selling heroin whilst Gardai look on!
This is really unfair on kids addicted to nicotine. Imagine them trying to enjoy Disney on Ice while they’re gummin for a vape. It’s a great way of get them to tuck into fruit too with all the strawberry and watermelon options. This will end up like the pubs except it’ll be the kids who opt to stay at home where they can vape in peace, and at a reasonable price too.
Bring in a law that requires a prescription from your doctor before you can buy vapes
I hear joe dolan from the hale shop just let specialist shops sell them his shops are the 1s selling them to kids
Awlful thing wont know real damage doing for few years sadly. Billionaires out there dont ever wanting smoking to go altogether. If was cure for cancer which how isnt but was vaccine for covid-19 so fast know not same but on control scales
was .As it is more money in treatment and selling of smoking products and treatments to get you back smoking
@martin finnegan: ‘ If was cure for cancer which how isnt but was vaccine for covid-19 so fast know not same but on control scales
was’
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