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Gougane Barra Swim

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A reminder from Tadhg Harrington to get your entries in for the Gougane Barra Swim next Saturday, September 3rd at 4pm.

This is a 2.5km handicapped lake swim with a 4.5km option for those who can complete the course in 90mins or less.

Participants have to be capable of swimming 2.5km competently.

It’s an interesting fresh-water swim with good boat cover and shore monitoring, in one of Irelands most beautiful lakes, the source of the Lee.

To register, click here for the link.

  • Include an accurate time for 1km for handicapping purposes or your Lee Swim time.
  • Wetsuit or Togs?
Gougane Barra Swim - Route map

Gougane Barra Swim – Route map

RNLI swim on June 18

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Enter here: RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay 2016 Entries on Active

Entries coming in steadily for the RNLI Myrtleville – Church Bay Swim.  If you’re doing it this year, please enter early.  Great to see the spread of people already entered – ranging from first-timers aiming to finish under an hour, to others looking to retain their crowns from last year!

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Enter here: RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay 2016 Entries on Active

Munster Open Water Swims 2016

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While June 18 is the only one you really need to know, here is Draft 1 of a few other swims for you to consider over the Summer 🙂

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Entries Open for RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay 2016

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The 2016 RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay (entrance to Cork Harbour) 2km open water sea swim will take place on Saturday, June 18th at 3.00pm. 

Participants must have submitted their entry online.  We can’t accept entries on the day.

Entries this year are online with Active.   Take note of the No Refunds policy – we’re donating entries to the RNLI.

Enter here: RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay 2016 Entries on Active

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

RNLI – as posed by Gary, Carol, Eleanor, Andrew, Brian and Orla – for Siobhan Russell

RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay: July 4, 2015: Six weeks to go.

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Six weeks to go to the sixth running of the RNLI Myrtleville – Church Bay Swim. Don’t miss this event.  Get swimming and entering.

In the earlier days of the event, there wasn’t a clear distinction between Administration staff and Competitors.

B. Lynch would give the safety briefing, then run to the nearest phone box (tough going from Myrtleville, to be fair) and change in to his superman Orca costume.  Ta Da!!

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

Crosshaven swimmers Bernard Lynch, Brian O’Connell, Caroline Fagan and Jane O’Connell all set for the Myrtleville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim 2010 (pic Howard Crowdy)

This is great, isn’t it?  Pictures of Bernard in a wetsuit!  Whooda Thunkit?

Get swimming and entering for the 2015 event.  Not to be missed.

RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay: July 4, 2015: Seven weeks to go

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Seven weeks to go.  Don’t miss this event.  Get swimming and entering.

In 2011, the swim was moved to Camden, due to unfavourable weather at Myrtleville.  Judging on the picture below, they bashed down the metal fences to get in there – although that could have been done by Micky, Kenneth or Roy, I suppose.

Then a mad fella in a wetsuit sent them forth into the sea.  Plenty of them looked dubious about it.  Good to see Moz had used a few bottles of fake tan and had waxed for the day.

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

RNLI Myrtleville-Church Bay Swim 2011 Safety briefing (pic Howard Crowdy).

To be fair, it must have been bad if even No. 55 was biting his nails in anticipation.

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

ECHO SPORT – Event organiser Bernard Lynch shows some of the competitors the route prior to the start of the 2nd annual RNLI 2k Open Water Swim at Fort Camden, Crosshaven (pic Howard Crowdy)

Get swimming and entering for the 2015 event.  Not to be missed.

RNLI Myrtleville – Church Bay: July 4, 2015

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Entries are coming in steadily for this fantastic swim.  Get yours in here.

This is the sixth running of the event and I thought a few blasts from the past would be appropriate.  With thanks to Howard Crowdy.

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

Pictured at the first Myrtleville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim 2010 were well known swimmers Imelda Lynch, Diarmuid Herlihy, Billy Campion, Finbarr Hedderman, Ossi Schmidt, Ned Denison and Lisa Cummins  (pic Howard Crowdy)

Seriously, look at de baba at the back.  Ah, Finbarr….were you about 15?

Ossi is smiling in that one but, at times, he has been know to be a bit….precise or maybe Germanic, shall we say.  Apparently on the day of this first swim it was scheduled to start at 2.30pm.  There was no way that Ossi was going to begin until the appointed time.  As for the rest of the entrants….they were a bit more on the Irish side.

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

Ossi Schmidt pictured appears to be giving the swimmers a head start during the Myrtleville to Church Bay RNLI Sea Swim 2010  (pic Howard Crowdy)

Don’t miss the sixth running of this great swim.  Enter here.

Courtmacsherry Lifeboat Swim – July 25th, 2015 at 12 noon.

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Courtmacsherry Lifeboat swim

From Ray McArdle:

The 5th Annual Courtmacsherry Lifeboat Swim takes place at Blind Strand, near the picturesque fishing village of Courtmacsherry at noon on Saturday, July 25th.

All proceeds from the swim go to the Courtmacsherry Lifeboat and Swim Ireland membership is not required.

Registration this year is via Active and closes on Thursday, July 23rd.

For more details, download the PDF here. 5th Annual Courtmacsherry Lifeboat swim.

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Munster OWS calendar 2015

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Thanks to Finbarr Hedderman, the first draft of the 2015 Open Water Swim calendar is now available here. 

The highlight, of course, is the RNLI Myrtleville to Church Bay swim on July 4 😊 but there are lots of other great events to plan for.

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

Good luck. Well done.

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Down for a pre-travel swim on Tuesday morning, Carol Cashell and Rob Bohane – who are heading for Florida and Jersey for big swims – were joined by Eddie Irwin, who is going to Limerick for the day soon.  Good luck, Eddie!  Mind yourself in that place. The other two should be safe enough.

Open water, sea swimming in Cork, Ireland.

Carol and Rob are heading out foreign for big swims. Eddie’s going to Limerick. Up the Rebels.

Well done to the five Myrtlevillains who competed in the 5km Monte Cristo Challenge in France at the weekend – Fiona Gough, Rosaleen McKeown, Tim Smyth, Keith McKeown and Andrew Gough.  They had The Hat with them, but it seems to have gone lazing by the pool.

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Or, it may simply have been tired after its visit to Spain for the coronation of the new King – VIP class, of course.

Crown for the new King.

Crown for the new King.