Those of us who knew him best talk about him often
This morning/afternoon.
Dublin city centre.
Scenes from the Jones Engineering 100th anniversary of the Dublin City Liffey Swim where 15-year-old Meath tyke Mark Hanley (above) took first prize.
The swim went ahead despite concerns about the quality of the water.
Nearly as bad as bottled water, experts had warned.
To no avail.
Dublin’s 100th annual Liffey Swim takes place on Saturday, August 3.
To mark the occasion, and in a nod to Jack B Yeats, Stoneybatter-based Damn Fine Print are creating a number of strictly limited edition prints by a number of artists including Annie Atkins, Steve Simpson, M&E, Fuschia Macaree, Peter Donnelly, Alan Dunne, Niall McCormack.
They’ll go on show at the Om Diva atelier, 27 Drury Street, Dublin 2, from Wednesday, August 1 to Tuesday, August 13.
Damn Fine Print’s Creative Director Kim Willoughby writes:
“There’ll be a launch night on the opening Wednesday after which the prints will be for sale in the Om Diva gallery on Drury Street and at DamnFinePrint.com for €90 each, unframed.
“They’re all strictly limited editions though so be quick if you’re thinking of nabbing a commemorative print for yourself or someone taking part in the swim.”
“…There’s something really magical about seeing hundreds of people swimming through the middle of our capital and we’ve hoping to immortalise that with a series of fun prints by some of the finest illustrators working in Ireland today.”
All prints glow at night.
Kidding.
Irish-made stuff to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘Irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.
Yesterday.
Custom House Quay, Dublin 2
Swimmers jump in to the River Liffey at the announcement of the Jones Engineering 99th Dublin City Liffey Swim taking place this Saturday, September 1.
Sam Boal/RollingNews
Yesterday.
The Liffey Swim 2016.
Photographer Donal Moloney, who writes:
Visitors to Dublin City’s quays on Saturday would be forgiven for thinking they had arrived in a some sort of weird and wacky Olympic village.
The Croker-bound crowds, in their GAA jerseys, flowed along the banks of the Liffey, as exhausted runners donning finisher medals oozed out of Phoenix Park’s Rock and Roll 5km road race.
Meanwhile, down at the convention centre, sci-fi and comic enthusiasts played out their favourite characters in costumes Sheldon Cooper would envy. But centre stage of the day had to go to the 97th Liffey Swim.
The 400-plus strong army of front-crawling participants made their epic 2.2km journey from the Rory O’Moore Bridge downstream to the Custom House.
Among them we met 79-year-old Sally Newell, an all-American gal who travelled over to swim the event with her 50-year-old daughter Amy, who lives in Dublin. “I took up swimming again when I was 54 and have been swimming 2km, three times per week ever since,” she said. “I tried running but I wasn’t so good at that.”
Sally is the oldest woman ever to participate in the event and her comfortable finish, alongside the rest of the women’s wave, was nothing short of inspirational.
As is the standard procedure for this event, swimmers exit the water and pass through the al fresco showers before they get to hug their loved ones and collect their medals.
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It was like something from ancient Greece.
If the ancient Grecians wore Speedo ‘budgie smugglers’.
They swam the Liffey on Saturday, so you don’t have to.
Now they glow in the dark.
(Photocall Ireland)
