Not many people can say they have had a hand in a Guinness World Record but Vanessa O’Connell is one of them. The record was for the world’s largest-capacity offshore windfarm, Hornsea One, a 1.2GW windfarm built by Danish company Ørsted off the coast of Yorkshire in the UK. The record only lasted until it was supplanted in 2022 by the 1.3GW Hornsea Two. But by that time, the Irishwoman had left the UK and was back home.  “I wanted to come back to Ireland and be part of the offshore wind journey,” she says. “At that point, there was…

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