Galway man, Damien Browne, has become the 1st person in history to row fro Nee York to Galway. Let’s celebrate this amazing achievement!

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  5. He’s an absolute animal. I love listening to podcasts with Damien on. Earlier this year I was training for a marathon and to climb Kilimanjaro and I had a bunch of injuries but I’d bounce between listening to his stuff and a few others and as cringe as it sounds it kept me seriously motivated.

  7. What was the point of this?

    Edit:Downvote away lads, but I’m not actually wrong. It was an utterly pointless endeavour that risked themselves and the TWO sets of rescuers needlessly.

  8. He’s some athlete! Supports a bunch of charities too, all round good human being.

  9. The weather on Galway Bay was mental last night.

    Could see he was moving closer and closer toward the coastline. So unsurprising he came a cropper on some rocks in Furbo.

    Hard to fathom how rowed in the conditions at all. Unbelievable.

  10. I was actually expecting this to be picture of a man in a Currach or something similar but I suppose this is OK. Jokes aside its very impressive!

  13. This guy is a total legend. His instagram posts have been seriously inspiring stuff throughout. Takes a lot of mental fortitude to do something like this and while some might say that it is pointless; doing something because we can is one of the things that make us human.

  15. “How’d you get here?” “By rowboat, my arms are killing me.” *Everybody laughs. “No, but really”

  19. I know people are afraid of catching covid in airplanes, but rowing all the way here is a bit extreme.

  20. Incredible achievement. I imagine it would be difficult/impossible to walk after 110 odd days of not walking. Was he carted off in a wheelchair?

  21. In the past 5 years, he’s rowed across the Atlantic twice, climbed 6/7 tallest mountains, didn’t do Everest because he got Covid at basecamp 3, and has done several endurance races. Damien has a screw loose in a good way. I’ve had the opportunity to talk to him a couple of times (he used to go to the same gym as me, and he’s involved in Rugby in Galway), he’s an absolute gent but you feel his intensity and desire to do crazy shit, amazing man.

  23. “Row, row, row your boat, gently across the ocean.

    Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily. Live is but a notion…”

    Fair play to him!

  24. What amazes me is he started with another fella and the plan was for them to do it together. Your man got injured and withdrew early on in the trip. So he ploughed on on his own!

  28. It’s people like Damian Browne that continue the spirit of Crean and Shackleton. Something about this island that forges men and women that go onto incredible feats of mental and physical strength.

    I really hope he brings out a book on his life so far. Not just on the extreme adventuring but also his rugby career where he won the Heineken cup. Perhaps we could learn something in it.

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