ONE WICKLOW resident got a pleasant surprise while out for her walk along the beach yesterday morning.
Sinéad Buckley-Quinn spotted none other than a certain Ronan Keating and his team of swimmers making landfall at the Murrough, the long stretch of beach between Wicklow Town and Greystones.
Ms Buckley-Quinn said she always took a camera with her while out walking but admitted that she had never taken “anything worthy” before.
She was walking with her eight-year-old daughter when she saw the group who had just completed their swim.
Her photographs amount to something of a scoop because every other photographer was waiting for them at the Forty Foot in Dún Laoghaire.
Strong tides had diverted the swimmers to Wicklow.
Olympic medallist swimmer Steve Parry led the group as Keating along with TV presenters Jenny Frost and Jason Bradbury and Strictly Come Dancingstar 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 (100km) charity relay was in aid of Cancer Research UK.
The group then took a boat to the Forty Foot where a large crowd turned out to greet them. Among the people who were there were Keating’s father Gerry and sister Linda.
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