PLENTY PEOPLE BRAVED the elements this morning for a traditional Christmas Day swim to start the festivities.
Alan Heffernan was at the Forty Foot.
Pic: Niall Carson/PA Wire/Press Association Images
As was John Crowe.
Pic: Niall Carson/PA Wire/Press Association Images
Photographer Karl Martini was on hand to capture some of the swimmers when they came out of the water.
You can view the rest of Karl's images and his other work here at his website, karlmartini.com – and we’ve got a taster for you here.
Christmas Day Swim
Christmas Day Swim
Christmas Day Swim
Christmas Day Swim
Christmas Day Swim
Christmas Day Swim
Love the Dubs, Irelands Great. Happy Christmas from London.
Lunatics!!
That’s mad Ted!
Someone needs to figure out how to use their camera’s flash properly!
The pictures were taken with a teapot.
Did it few times, never again. Feckin freezing and exhausting!
Hats off to those that did it!
Something wrong with some of them photos
10:30am new years morning at Blessington lakes … 5km run to warm up then jump in the lake, meeting at Avon Ri at 10am
We were very lucky in Dingle Co . Kerry ..
Our Christmas swim was moved from Beenbawn to Dún Síon
but the weather was beautiful and everybody had a good time
Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dingle-peninsula/11550124104/
Video – (We had sun and snow) http://youtu.be/DZcwN7lqTsw
Hate to put a downer on your festive buzz but the Irish Sea is in the top five most radioactive places on earth Fukushima being no.1
6 million liters of contaminated nuclear waste is pumped from Sellafield everyday cause there is no other way to deal with it
Stay out of the water it’s dangerous !
I, and many others have swam in it most of lives. Only problem with it is cleaning my tentacles after I get out…..
Irish Sea is the most radioactive sea in the world. I live beside it.
Great photos Karl
Goy ball