The Craic - video

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Stu Nettle (stunet)
Swellnet Dispatch

Seems it's Irish Week on Swellnet. No sooner had we published an Irish Sketch Book, with input by Andrew Kidman and Fergal Smith, plus photos by Toby Manson, then this video of Ireland comes out.

It's not without some consternation that I post it, after all the aforementioned piece described how wonderfully uncrowded Ireland is compared to the rest of the world. However, I think this vid shows just why that's the case. Say hello to heavy neoprene from top to toe, observe the snow-capped mountains and off-the-Arctic offshores, all of which gives you a sense of that cod-chilling water.

Indo never looked so good...

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Blowin Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 9:50pm

No video available

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stunet Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 10:01pm

Fine here. Maybe Indo vid restrictions?

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Blowin Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 10:18pm

It's just blank where the vid should be.

Don't ever have any problems with any other swellnet vids.

It's not a rubberist fetish video is it ?

The Indo censors might not have too much of a hard on for that kind of action.

I made a pun ! ...I think ?

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goofyfoot Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 10:29pm

Siiiick waves. Looks like an amazing place.
On the bucket list for sure

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BobC Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 6:26am

That water looked like Guinness...Great Video, sound track made it look even colder.

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thermalben Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 6:44am

Really nice video. Good to see a few different locations too other than the usual Aileens/Rileys/Mullaghmore offerings. Darcy's really come a long way in the last few years too, the production is pretty slick.

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freeride76 Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 7:35am

whats the water temp?

bet that wind chill is brass bollocks.

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Snorkel Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 8:09am

Good vid, some of it looked a bit like bit like down south! (maybe not the snow).

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Bruce.H Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 11:30am

Never thought I'd hear a Joy Division tune used as a backing track to a surf video, especially their song Atmosphere. It kind of worked though, in a frosty type of way. A really well produced video with great editing, but I don't think I'll be putting Ireland on my surf destination itinerary any time soon. Too fracking cold.

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t-diddy Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 10:58pm

same track is used in a Kai Neville film, go figure. somber as fuck

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t-diddy Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 11:33pm

wow solid bullocks to fade it at 3:30

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Dave Drinkwater Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 4:26pm

Having trouble with most videos, whole site struggles to load.

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CELTIC Thursday, 19 May 2016 at 12:44pm

Indo never looked so good... so long as you don't mind waiting for 40 minutes for a wave....maybe I just need to paddle harder....