Oh wait hang on now. This is only allowed down past Portobello or over by Drumcondra. No tikes allowed around D2 lock gates while we’re having our corporate sandwiches.
Janet, I ate my avatar
he looks pretty equiped to me …
MyloD
Did you zoom in on that photo?
B Bop
He looks suitably attired…scobes are always sartorially non elegant in the proverbial tracksuit.
Farty McCarthy
he can jump for all I care
scundered
At least his immune system should be bulletproof after a dip in that.
Talismania!
This is what comes of shooing them off the M50.
Jones
Clowns. Saw rats having the craic there on lunch a couple of hours ago. Enjoy the weil’s, mate.
15 cents
the canal is so gross.
pedeyw
You should see the Ballyfermot end of it.
Owen
I was only saying to friends of mine at the weekend when we visited Graignamanagh, were they have installed two diving boards and it is used by young and old alike, how in Dublin swimming in the canal is frowned upon while down there swiming in the barrow is considered an amenity and a free activity.
ahjayzis
It’s illegal to swim in canals.
The water is more or less standing and that’s bad for all sorts of obvious reasons.
Owen
The water on the canal is constantly flowing and has the best natural filtration system there is otherwise it wouldn’t be clear.
D2dweller
You been around portobello/the barge lately? Nothing clear about that water
Owen
No I haven’t, is it cloudy? Is there something polluting it at that section? It was gin clear at Portobello last Sunday.
D2dweller
Shopping trollies, traffic cones and hundreds a cans…that’s what I could see anyway
Compared to a country river, its absolutely stagnant and filthy. As stated, fairly rat invested. Its in a fairly packed area of the city. You couldn’t pay me enough to swim in it.
Owen
Every river has rats, not to mention the run off from farms, slurry etc and local industries, oil spills from boats. The canal is not stagnant you just have to see the amount of water the runs over the locks, just because it is deep doesn’t mean it’s not flowing. If it was polluted it wouldn’t be full of life, swan muscles, cray fish, many kinds of fish and insect life. The canal in Dublin is probably cleaner than the majority of rivers and lakes in the country.
Kieran NYC
It’s like that scene in the new National Lampoon movie where they all go swimming in a shite hole.
Or rather, it’s like that scene in the trailer. Since no one actually went to go see that movie.
Oh wait hang on now. This is only allowed down past Portobello or over by Drumcondra. No tikes allowed around D2 lock gates while we’re having our corporate sandwiches.
he looks pretty equiped to me …
Did you zoom in on that photo?
He looks suitably attired…scobes are always sartorially non elegant in the proverbial tracksuit.
he can jump for all I care
At least his immune system should be bulletproof after a dip in that.
This is what comes of shooing them off the M50.
Clowns. Saw rats having the craic there on lunch a couple of hours ago. Enjoy the weil’s, mate.
the canal is so gross.
You should see the Ballyfermot end of it.
I was only saying to friends of mine at the weekend when we visited Graignamanagh, were they have installed two diving boards and it is used by young and old alike, how in Dublin swimming in the canal is frowned upon while down there swiming in the barrow is considered an amenity and a free activity.
It’s illegal to swim in canals.
The water is more or less standing and that’s bad for all sorts of obvious reasons.
The water on the canal is constantly flowing and has the best natural filtration system there is otherwise it wouldn’t be clear.
You been around portobello/the barge lately? Nothing clear about that water
No I haven’t, is it cloudy? Is there something polluting it at that section? It was gin clear at Portobello last Sunday.
Shopping trollies, traffic cones and hundreds a cans…that’s what I could see anyway
Gin clear… and flowing sloely
I’ll get me waders
Compared to a country river, its absolutely stagnant and filthy. As stated, fairly rat invested. Its in a fairly packed area of the city. You couldn’t pay me enough to swim in it.
Every river has rats, not to mention the run off from farms, slurry etc and local industries, oil spills from boats. The canal is not stagnant you just have to see the amount of water the runs over the locks, just because it is deep doesn’t mean it’s not flowing. If it was polluted it wouldn’t be full of life, swan muscles, cray fish, many kinds of fish and insect life. The canal in Dublin is probably cleaner than the majority of rivers and lakes in the country.
It’s like that scene in the new National Lampoon movie where they all go swimming in a shite hole.
Or rather, it’s like that scene in the trailer. Since no one actually went to go see that movie.