Youghal Ironman: Event not sanctioned to go ahead after water safety assessment by governing body

“For the Ironman Cork event, in line with normal practice, Triathlon Ireland Technical Officials attended before the start of the race to review the conditions and carry out a water safety assessment.

The organisation said that, as with all Ironman events, its utmost priority was the safety to those taking part. Brendan Wall worked as a sales director at a steel tubes manufacturers in Wednesbury in the UK having previously been employed by an industrial machinery manufacturing firm in Cavan. He was a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the University of Hull where he completed an MBA.

He had completed Ironman events in among other places Zell Am See in Austria and in Maine USA whilst he also was a finisher at the Triathlon Mecca Challenge Roth in Roth, Germany. Mr Chittenden, who was married and had children, did his first Ironman event in 2013. “It may be that Water Safety Ireland will also be asking questions and wish to fully understand the facts and the circumstances of what happened. It is such a terrible tragedy.”

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