Sailing into history! Limerick man's circumnavigation of the globe remembered on 100th anniversary
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FROM the tides of the Atlantic to the chill breeze of the Southern Indian Ocean, from the islands of the Pacific and back home, Limerick man Conor O’Brien saw it all. Conor took the risk of a lifetime when he set sail from Foynes in 1923 - not knowing if he would ever see the banks of the port town