Watch: The best Irish winter of all time

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Little bit of delayed transmission here. Red Bull has just released this clip from the best sessions of the Irish winter...which ended eight months ago.

Never mind the lag, it's a grand little exposé of the jewels of Irish surfing: Aileens, PMPA, and Mullaghmore, including Conor Maguire's Mullies' beast, ridden during the swell from Hurricane Epsilon, and a wild paddle in from Maguire that starts at 7:40.

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Hutchy 19 Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 9:10am

Great clip Stu . Mulla looks like a frigid Teahupoo in some sections . Very heavy .

Incredible surfing and all were paddling in . I hope to see an Irish person on the Big Wave tour .

Looks like they have big dolphins . Any GWS living up there ?

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tango Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 10:19am

That paddle in at 7:40 is jaw dropping. And the wave and wipeout at the end around 10:10 is just....no words suffice.

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spiggy topes Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 11:13am

Back in 79 when I first saw this coast in action everyone I was with thought I was a lunatic trying to get a sea level perspective. The climbs were worth the cosmic mind surfing it allowed. I couldn't even conceive of taking off on those waves. This clip just shows how fantasy becomes reality with the aid of technology and quantum leaps in courage. Ireland was a troubled place back then but one thing that was without question - the imagination, aspirations and bravery of certain Irish people. Slàinte Mhath eachtraíochtaoirí!

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ringmaster Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 12:48pm

Bunch a hard core legends!

Good on em'.

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andy-mac Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 1:47pm

Heavy water!!

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memlasurf Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 2:44pm

Wow they would have to be some of the heaviest, rideable, waves outside Fiji, Tahiti, and Hawaii that I have seen. Didn't really need the sub titles it is still English however the action is incredible and those lads are seriously dedicated. Love the comment re' rare to have Mullaghmore in the sun....notice the sky, that's about as sunny as it gets on that coast. Really Shite weather as they would say and the water temp, brass monkeys would suffer badly. I wonder if they ever get just fun waves or is it all or nothing. When I was there is was a very, grey, miserable nothing, whereas back in Dublin pleasant and sunny, no surf of course.

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Finnbob the terror Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 7:12pm

Yeah, great waves too, set up after set up. A little complex to get it on, like Tassie, especially 20 years ago with no iPhones or internet.

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clif Friday, 29 Oct 2021 at 1:40am

need to be a wizard and normally living there to drop everything to get on. things move fast on that coast!! had it great but skunked a lot too.

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Hutchy 19 Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 3:53pm

Probably too cold for GWS .

Where do great whites live?
Great white sharks live in almost all coastal and offshore waters which have water temperature between 12 and 24 °C (54 and 75 °F),

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dean maddison Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 6:52pm

Insane wave for Conner . I keep thinking what the wave you can see feathering behind was like.

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Spuddups Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 7:24pm

A mate of mine went there some time in the mid 90s. Came back and said it was like a cold water Indo with no crowds. He was raving about a spot called "Pumper", turns out it's actually PMPA haha!

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Hoodie Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 8:02pm

That was HARDCORE

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blackers Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 8:16pm

Great perspective from the cliffs at Aileens. Some serious waves. Them boys have the bollix, to be sure!

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GuySmiley Thursday, 28 Oct 2021 at 9:08pm

Words fail to describe that, not even in the next lifetime, crazy shit, that raw, that size and frigid body numbing hard cold water

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clif Friday, 29 Oct 2021 at 1:42am

not that cold to be fair. all relative haha. suits nowadays are brilliant. colder where I am, even in summer. that gulf stream does a good job. lucky bastards.

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groundswell Friday, 29 Oct 2021 at 7:08am

Hey Clif matty here, just wondering about Simeulue, are moterbike rentals available from the locals or do you have to hire an Ojek to travel around?
Ive found some good places to stay away from surf camps but dont know about transport.

Hope you've been scoring up there..been a good couple of months here lately although i had two weeks out of the water with stitches in my foot.
Anyway hope you and the fam are going well.

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clif Friday, 29 Oct 2021 at 6:19pm

Hey Matty. Bikes can be hired now. Go to the far north of island, after a taste in South.

Bugger about the stitches.

Yeah. Been smoking here. Good start to season. Uncrowded too ;-) point break to ourselves the other day. Not to mention the slabs that have been on fire.

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groundswell Saturday, 30 Oct 2021 at 12:57am

Excellent Clif, glad you're scoring are there any long barrelling lefts in simulue there you could tell me about? maybe better on private message on facebook.

Anyway glad youve been scoring..today was another good day where i live in WA but too many tourists and not enough waves..locals dominated though but ive only recently started surfing the point again so dont consider myself a local even though ive lived here for 5 or 6 years.

Good to be off the piss and ciggies again and losing weight.

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clif Saturday, 30 Oct 2021 at 4:57am

Holler via FB.

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frog Friday, 29 Oct 2021 at 8:17am

Not a finless hipster or grumpy old longboarder in sight.

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spidermonkey Friday, 29 Oct 2021 at 8:35am

Plenty of motor bikes for rent GS. That's the go, good place for poking around on the bike

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groundswell Friday, 29 Oct 2021 at 8:56am

Thanks spidermonkey. Looks like a lot of setups but i heard some were destroyed by a quake..still looks good though at a lot of other spots on google maps.

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jasper99 Friday, 29 Oct 2021 at 3:37pm

Went there in the early 2000's and a few novelty surfs during some very warm late September weather then got blasted by a cold front Ireland style and stumbled across Mullaghmore I guess before it was fully on the radar.
Not sure how big it was but way out of my league and the sheer volume of water that hits that shelf is mind boggling and hats off to all that take it on......

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science Sunday, 31 Oct 2021 at 9:56pm

Sweet tunes