After former Bill Clinton speechwriter John Pollack was featured with his cork boat in the Washington Post’s gossip column in September 2001, a friend chided him: “Right now, there’s some third-term ...

John Pollack, a former Clinton speech-writer and Hill staffer, with a partner, built a boat out of 165,321 corks, took it to Portugal and sailed it down the Douro River to the sea to the enthusiastic ...

Strap 160,000 cork stoppers together and what do you get? Realizing a 30-year-old dream, American John Pollock is on his way down one of Portugal's largest rivers, from the border with Spain to the ...

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Brid Ryan, who founded Queen B Athletics with her sister Aedin Corbyn,describes their excitement as they watched the Irish women’s hockey team qualify for their first Olympics. On another superb ...

THE CREW of Cork had the honour of leading the Clipper 09-10 fleet into her home port of Kinsale on Sunday night with festivities surrounding the round-the-world race set to continue for the rest of ...

The 138-year-old Shandon Boat Club, based on Cork’s Marina, made club history at the weekend when it put eight new state-of-the-art Wintech racing boats — worth a combined total of some €90,000 — on ...

THE 'BRI CUALANN,' one of Bray Rowing Club's vessels, crossed the finish line at the annual Ocean to City Boat Race in County Cork last bank holiday weekend after 2hrs 8 mins, winning their boat type ...

After a three-year stint as a freelance foreign correspondent in Spain, Pollack returned to the U.S. to win the 1995 O. Henry World Championship Pun-Offs and work as a speechwriter for House ...