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#Surfing - Mullaghmore Head in Co Sligo keeps making an impression - as the Irish Independent reports it's been named by travel guide Lonely Planet as one of the top surfing spots in the world. The big wave mecca has…
#Surfing - The therapeutic power of the waves is being used by an Irish network of surfing camps to help children with autism connect with their families and each other. Afloat.ie previously reported on the Surf2heal programme in Tramore -…
#Surfing - Mullaghmore Head in Co Sligo has made the list of USA Today's 'World's Most Surprising Surf Spots' alongside such destinations as Dubai, India, Iceland and the River Severn. "The countryside isn't all that's green in Ireland," the paper…
#Surfing - Wexford now has its first ever dedicated surf school - thanks to two enterprising brothers. The Wexford People reports on The Surf Shack in Curracloe, established by Chad and Jack-Tim Murray in an effort to put the Sunny…
#Surfing - The Blasket Islands are the setting for a new documentary following the exploits of two surfers descended from the ancestral 'king' of the island chain. IrishCentral reports on The Crest, the story of two distant cousins from opposite…
#Surfing - Two national broadcasters will base themselves in Bundoran this week ahead of the Sea Sessions Surf Music Festival at the weekend. Today FM’s KC Show will broadcast live from the Bundoran RNLI Lifeboat Station tomorrow 19 June and…
#Surfing - A trio of Galway windsurfers completed the 95km round trip to and from the Aran Islands last weekend - setting a new Irish record for stand-up paddle boarding in the process. The Irish Times reports on the successful…
#Surfing - Fancy learning to surf as Gaeilge? One surf school in the sunny southeast is giving international visitors the opportunity to do just that. The Freedom Surf School in Tramore, Co Waterford offers 'Ireland's only accredited surfing certificate course…
#Surfing - Irish surfer Glenn Hall pipped reigning ASP world champion Joel Parkinson for a place in the quarter-finals of the Billabong Rio Pro this week, as Australia's SBS News reports. Thirty-one-year-old Hall - who was born in New South…
#Surfing - Cornish surfing pro Tom Lowe took on Ireland's incredible winter waves, and has the video to prove it! Shot by fellow Cornwall native Mickey Smith, the clip - via Surf Around Ireland - shows Lowe paddling into some…
#Surfing - A café-owning couple with twin passions for cooking and surfing have turned their successful business into an equally successful cookbook. As reported on Surfers Village, Jane and Myles Lamberth were recently featured on the UTV series James Nesbitt's…
#Surfing - Iceland, of all places, may not be known as a surfing hot-spot - but Irish wave rider Eoin McCarthy Deering has made something of the freezing swell, as the video above demonstrates. The clip, via IrishCentral, was captured…
#Surfing - A South African surfer has survived a terrifying ordeal after being stranded alone in shark-infested waters in the Indian Ocean. As Channel 4 News reports, 50-year-old Brett Archibald had been with friends on an overnight boat crossing from…
#Surfing - Ireland is represented for another year running on the shortlist for the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards to be presented next month. According to The Irish Times, Clare surfing pro Peter Conroy and Portrush photographer Roo McCrudden are…
#Windsurfing - History has been made in Hawaii with the first Irish woman ever to have windsurfed the infamous 'Jaws' surfing break, as The Irish Times reports. Twenty-six-year-old Katie McAnena, a doctor from Galway, demonstrated perfect timing as she leapt…
#Surfing - Ireland's first ever surfing themed film festival has been hailed as a "roaring success" all round, according to surf website Magicseaweed. The Shore Shots Irish Surf Film Festival - which took over the Light House Cinema and the…
