PLENTY PEOPLE BRAVED the elements this morning for a traditional Christmas Day swim to start the festivities.
Alan Heffernan was at the Forty Foot.
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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.
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Christmas Day Swim
Christmas Day Swim
Christmas Day Swim
Christmas Day Swim
Christmas Day Swim
Christmas Day Swim
Was a fantastic fight whilst it lasted. Cannot understand why paddy did not want to bring it to the later rounds. Fought fire with fire too much. A symptom of fighting in a hometown stadium.
@Sean og S: I’ve never seen a country lose so much in every sport. I mean do Ireland ever win anything, seriously?
@Tyler Williams: you’d miss the ole red thumbs….
@Tyler Williams: have you ever heard of Rugby?
@Tyler Williams: the Irish women’s hockey team.
@Ciara Ni Mhurchu: literally 3 days ago TJ Doheny became a world champion boxer
@Tyler Williams: troll/10 marks for that
@Tyler Williams: We’re a country with a population of 5m. The US is a country with a population of approximately 325m – and yet, you do not win everything “in every sport”. As a nation, you have yet to embrace the only true global sport, football (not handeggball) because you play it so badly, to watch the US national team is an offense to the senses. Also, FYI, the national Irish rugby (a far superior game in comparison to NFL) team, as well as our club sides, regularly dominate the global and european leagues.
He was up against a brillant boxer.
@Gerry W: you were a brilliant boxer yourself Gerry before you picked up that injury
@Flembomb: Consistent
Looks Knacker ed
@John O Reilly: you must be knackered yourself John. Way past your bedtime
@Brian Les: are you a les
@John O Reilly: …bian?
Olympics a different game, he was found out.
@Greedylocks: Sure he only turned pro because he was too old to make another Olympics and went to the only other place he could make cash and got found out.it’s the main reason we have good amatures and no good professionals, the funding they got in the amature game was too much to risk by turning pro.
Looking at the guys each had fought coming in this was a fairly predictable result. Too much far too soon. Had fought 5 absolute club fighters whereas Rosales has been mixing it in near world class for years.
What time is Fury on at?
@Gone Fishing: now
@Gone Fishing: Furry who?
@Tiarnan Guinée: Turned it on for the square off with Wilder, styles make fights, should be a cracker jacker.
@john: He is from the same place as James McLean, the bloke you have a photo of on your Twitter feed. 100% Irish.
@Tanks a Minion: McLean’s s Derry man. Not the same place at all
Went way way way can I say way again too early for a title shot ,,, he will be no doubt about that ,,, superior boxer with experience against him ,,