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June Curtain in Spanish Point, Co Clare. \ Philip Doyle The car is hot and sticky, even though it’s barely the beginning of summer. After a day on the road, you roll the window down and turn up the radio, as you really want to be 100% alert for what you are about to see. As we drive out towards Spanish Point on the Clare coast, coming over the brow of a hill, suddenly it comes into view. That first magnificent glimpse of the sea in the evening sunshine. Even just seeing the ocean invigorates us. It almost has a magnetic pull. ....
Why the dryrobe wars shouldn t put you off swimming Irish swimming places have always welcomed people regardless of body shape, size, skin or what you re wearing • 22 Feb 2021 Amidst the recent boom in open-water swimming, there has been much talk about dryrobe wars allegedly happening across South Dublin. As comedian Oliver Callan recently remarked, it had previously only been eccentrics and Protestants who ever braved the cold Irish waters. Now, we have new tribes, characterized respectively as vigilante regulars and Class A Trendies wearing dryrobes, clashing at the 40 Foot and beyond. The alleged spat has been covered locally and abroad to much hilarity all round. ....
The lure of the sea during lockdown Updated / Wednesday, 14 Apr 2021 07:59 Analysis: Lockdown has caused many to rediscover the joy of the sea with many of the activities we associate with it either beginning or gaining popularity in the nineteenth century. The easing of restrictions in Ireland brings with it for many the prospect of a return to the sea. In eager conversations between those not living in the sea s locality, there is a desire to see again the waves rolling on a beach, to walk anew the strand, to watch once more vessels appear and disappear beyond the horizon. This pull is not an unprecedented one, despite the times we are living through and, yet, research suggests that we did not always associate the coast with such pleasures. So, how have we come to think of the sea in this way and why do we so desperately want to return to it? ....
Why the dryrobe wars shouldn t put you off outdoor swimming Updated / Thursday, 25 Feb 2021 10:00 Analysis: Irish swimming places have always welcomed people regardless of body shape, size, skin or what you re wearing This article is now available above as a Brainstorm podcast. You can subscribe to the Brainstorm podcast through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts . Amidst the recent boom in open-water swimming, there has been much talk about dryrobe wars allegedly happening across South Dublin. As comedian Oliver Callan recently remarked, it had previously only been eccentrics and Protestants who ever braved the cold Irish waters. Now, we have new tribes, characterized respectively as ‘vigilante regulars’ and ‘Class A Trendies’ wearing dryrobes, clashing at the 40 Foot and beyond. The alleged spat has been covered locally and abroad to much hilarity all round. ....
A Time to Talk: Friendships, Connections, Kindness Publication 21 December 2020 Aithnítear cara i gcruatan As the child of immigrants to Ireland and having spent almost 40 years living as an Irish emigrant, my life has been underlined by the importance of friendship, the significance of human connections, the need for community and the value of kindness, not only in times of hardship but on a daily basis. I was welcomed into this world in the Leon Bar! Not because my mother was thirsty, but because it was the only place in the village of Quilty in the West of Ireland that had hot water. My parents had moved there from the UK a year or so earlier. This was their first taste of an Irish welcome, which encouraged my father to build up his veterinary practice with my mother at his side when she was not out learning how to catch lobsters with a gaff from an elderly Church of Ireland vicar, or learning set dancing in my birthplace in her bare fe ....