It’s that time of year when eBay handles the disposal of mountains of unwanted crap handed over as Christmas gifts. To highlight one listing – the “seller” is offering to pay anyone who’ll come and take away an item that mysteriously landed in his wife’s present pile. It’s hideous – even the dog isn’t happy to have it as bedding. What a load of goat shite.
Goats????? Get it off me!!! Call the CSPCA!!!
Volunteers matter!
Congrats to Eoin Lowry and Anne Sheehy – winners of the Devil’s Island Trophy 2017 who crewed the most interesting, completed epic swim during the year. The swimmer was Maeve Mulcahy and it was the Fastnet to Baltimore swim.
This will be presented during the Cork Spring Dinner.
Thanks to all who volunteered in 2017: organisers, crew, pilots, kayaker, timekeepers, webmasters, checkin and checkout team…etc. The sport doesn’t happen without you.
Eight nominations were received and voted on by the panel of Steven Black – West Cork, Adrian Healy – Mallow, Ned Denison – Sandycove, Damian O’Neill – Myrtleville and Dave Mulcahy – Fermoy
Everyone – and I mean EVERYONE – would love a Myrtleville Towel or Hat this Christmas. Whether it’s the Mr. Finbarr or Yankee Ned in your life, there’s nothing they’d love more.
For a stocking filler to be proud of, call to Bernie in Centra Crosshaven for a cool Towel or Hat.
Thanks to Centra staff for facilitating distribution of these by the way – it’s a hassle for them for no cost to us Myrtlevillians. Much easier than using the boots of our cars and messing around with change! Much appreciated.
If I’m asked – and I often am – why so many people have taken to swimming in Myrtleville I say, “Siobhan Russell”. In this digital age, having an in-beach photographer who captures the fun of sea swimming is fantastic. People trying to decide if they should take the plunge and try getting in to the sea can browse online and clearly see others who may look a bit mad (we do), but who definitely are having fun. Siobhan captures that and it’s easy to forget how lucky we are to have her.
Here’s this year’s labour of love showing us all in all our glory! Have a coffee and a relax. It’s worth it. Thanks, Siobhan. You are a star.
It’s gone mad now. Everything. The world. Mad.
One constant I had to cling to in life was that the car boot is where you keep swimmy stuff. Everyone the same. Dumped there. Loads of it. Clean it out a couple of times a year. Grand. Comforting, though. You know your swimmy stuff is there. Togs. Goggles. Hats. Flasks. Towels. Lip liner. Wha?
“I’ve lip liner in the boot, if you need it”. Words I never thought I’d hear at the top of Myrtleville beach. Until yesterday. Then I noticed various ladies unwilling to get out of their cars until they had primped, preened and titivated to their satisfaction. 
Is this the Instagram generation taking us over? “I wouldn’t be seen dead at the Dutchman without lipstick….”? “It’s under 10c, I’d better use a different foundation….”?
Seriously, ladies, ye don’t need to be listening to Denis. Ye’re gorgeous just they way ye are. Clean out those boots now. Put the lippy back in the house where it belongs. Go for the natural look. Like these icons. Not a lip liner between them.
Really now. Kiss that lip liner goodbye.
The 2018 RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay 2km open water sea swim will take place on Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018 at 7.00 pm.
Book your holidays some other week 🙂
Entries will open in February.
It’s a true saying – it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. Great examples spring to mind in sport, from the bould Joe Deane laying waste to massive Tipp defenders for years (never lost to Tipp in his whole career, our Deano) to this iconic Peter Stringer image – as he prepared to hold his own with men apparently twice his size…
Gwan ya good ting, Strings.
Now, to relate this to our own OWS world we have a new iconic image to treasure, as our local hero, Bernie Lynch, refuses to be intimidated by the giants of the sport around him and gets right in to the picture – as good as any of ’em, boy!
Gwan, Bernie! Hup ya boy ya!! Feck de begrudgers!!! Happy birthday, Ned 🙂
The Swimmer, a short film featuring Steve Redmond, will be in the Cork Film Festival on Saturday next at 4pm in the Everyman Theatre.
Steve’s film is part of the International Short Films section and the line-up of films looks like a great couple of hours of entertainment.
Tickets can be booked here: Cork Film Festival Tickets
If you can be in town on Saturday, Steve would be delighted to see any swimmers there.
Meet the stars – Steve Redmond gets to have his photo taken with Pat Higgins and Tom Bermingham. “Better than any Oceans Seven”, said Steve 🙂
News has reached this site of an exciting planned bi-location event on December 9th, similar to the Live Aid Wembley and Philadelphia shows in 1985. Myrtleville Swimmers has become so big that one venue just isn’t enough. Instead – for one night only (because there are only 365 nights in the year to choose from) – on December 9th, they’ll be “Rockin’ All Over de Crosser/Quays”.
There was hassle getting the video link-ups right for Live Aid, but 32 years on WhatsApp will ensure the two venues for this massive event will work in sync. It doesn’t seem to make anything else work together, but I’m sure this night will be fine.
I’d suggest that to keep it real, the same set-list should be followed in the two spots. I’m mad into de music meself, so here’s a few suggestions for what could be on that set-list. Brendan O’Brien might have these in his DJ van, maybe:
Those of us who can remember (that’d be most of us, as we’re all supposedly grown-ups now) may recall Phil Collins doing the coolest thing and travelling from Wemberly to Philly to appear at both shows.
Our own version of Phil – the head off him, seriously – is going to replicate this achievement and bi-locate between the two venues (since he doesn’t drink, he said he’d take an ould spin into town if things got quiet and needed a celebrity jizz-up). Here’s the bould Murph getting ready:
It’s going to be some night! Although I won’t be there (or there) myself. I’m heading for the hot spots of Passage with Bernie Lynch – it’s dead handy for getting home after and that’s all that matters. I think the pub only sells Beamish and Harp, but sure what harm. We’ll follow the show online and maybe do a tri-location broadcast ourselves. Bernie does a mean cover of Van Halen’s “Where have all the good times gone?”. Keepin’ it real, man – right on.
A joint one with Crosser Tri? Feckin hell, we’re gonna need a bigger Oar 😀 The only place to be.
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