{"id":298416,"date":"2026-02-14T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298416\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:18:08","slug":"paralympian-breaks-world-record-ferry-pull-in-conamara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298416\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympian breaks world record ferry pull in Conamara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paralympian and amputee, Shane McLaughlin celebrated Valentine&#8217;s Day with a world record ferry pull at Ros an Mh\u00edl in Conamara.<\/p>\n<p>The Monaghan man broke his sixth world record this morning at 11.05am when he crossed the five metre line with a 120 tonne pull of Aran Island vessel, Saoirse na Farraige.<\/p>\n<p>It measures 40 metres wide and nine metres long and is the largest passenger only ferry vessel registered in Irish waters.<\/p>\n<p>He is the first man to pull the vessel over five metres and enter his name into the record books.<\/p>\n<p>Mr McLaughlin now has six world records for vessel and truck pulls.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024 he pulled an 18 tonne truck, his first pull. It led to further back-to-back world records and this morning he broke his own most recent world record of 40 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paralympian and Amputee Shane Mc Loughlin successfully pulled the 120 Tonne Aran Island Ferries' vessel, Saoirse na Farraige\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0023e4fd-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nShane McLaughlin has six world records for vessel and truck pulls<\/p>\n<p>Mr McLaughlin lost his leg in a farm accident and has competed as a Paralympian in shot put for the past six years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is fantastic. I was focused, and as always, it&#8217;s mind over matter. I believed I could achieve a successful pull of the fabulous 120 tonne Saoirse na Farraige passenger ferry vessel&#8221;, he said said.<\/p>\n<p>He was supported crossing the line by seven-year-old Galway Girl Katie Walsh from Tuam.<\/p>\n<p>Katie lost her leg at the age of three in a lawnmower accident at her home. She too has displayed determination and focus listing camogie and dancing as her favourite hobbies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paralympian and amputee, Shane McLaughlin celebrated Valentine&#8217;s Day with a world record ferry pull at Ros an Mh\u00edl&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-298416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}