Photograph: World's Toughest Row/InstagramA Galway man has won the solo class in The World’s Toughest Row, completing a 4,800km journey across the Atlantic Ocean in fewer than 40 days. After finishing the race on his boat The Jasper, he told RTÉ News at One, “I feel like I’ve been beamed down from another planet”. “But with the support of my wife and my family, I was able to put that to one side and focus on the job at hand which was to row, row, row and ultimately complete the crossing. MacLoughlin at sea in his row boat. “I live by the ethos of ‘be better today than yesterday’ every day and this certainly has played into that,” he said.

Source: The Irish Times January 23, 2026 22:13 UTC