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HUNDREDS OF SWIMMERS are set to brave the elements to participate in this year’s Liffey Swim through Dublin city centre.
The 92nd Liffey Swim is set to start on Saturday at the Loop Line Bridge and finishes at the East Link Bridge. The men’s race kicks off at 11.15am and the women’s at 12.15pm. Lord Mayor of Dublin Naoise Ó Muirí is to present the winners’ cups at 2.15pm, while prizes will presented at a special reception for the swim at the Gresham Hotel at 7.30pm.
Visit Dublin recommends the Liffey Boardwalk as the best place to view the action, but you’ll need to get in early to make you have a good vantage point.
Here are some of the daring individuals who decided to take a dip to mark the official launch of this week’s race:
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When is it? I’ve read the piece twice and can’t find the day/date only the times. Perhaps it’s tomorrow?
Saturday -that’s what is says under the pictures
its usually first week of September.
Holy Moly who in their right mind would swim in that cesspool.
Agree…ya’d bounce off it with all the pollution in it
It’s that bad the algae wouldn’t live in it
Hmmmmmm………………………………..
I thought Budgie Smugglers were a complete fashion faux pas these days. Suppose they wouldn’t be too bad if 90% of us weren’t an awful shade of pasty white, hairy and flabby in all the wrong places. (myself included) :-)
Thousands standing on the boardwalk?
Could be that more people finish the swim than start it.
Loads of inaccuracies in this story. The race does not start at Watling Street bridge, it starts at Georges Quay and heads out towards the East Link bridge. The Boardwalk is not the best place to view the race – poor JOURNALism.
Your name is so fitting…….
Methinks they are mad Ted
Have they stopped doing the Liffey walk? :)
isnt the swim moved from watling st because of the new bridge being built at marlboro st? thought it was only below marlboro st to the east link.
think it starts the opposite side of the liffey. Guinness end?
Thats brrrrrrrrilliant #aerial
Route right in photo captions, wrong in story
I’d be watching out for the brown trout!
is there not reports of raw sewerage being pumped into the liffey due to a broken pipe below palmerstown , EPA have been notified. lower liffey kayak race postponed till Sept.
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