Best of luck to our Swimmers in the Dun-Laoghaire Harbour Swim this afternoon 21st August, men’s race starts at 2.30pm, before the race some of our junior swimmers will take part in a Children’s fun race at 1.30.
From Leinster Open Sea – The Clontarf SC open sea race that was due to take place on Saturday 20th August – RACE NOW CANCELLED.
Well done to Colm Walsh from Clontarf for his second place finish in the Siobhan McKenna Cup held today 14th August 2016 at Killiney Beach. The Men’s race was won by Mick Mongey from St. Vincents and the Womens race was won by Siobhan O’Brien from NAC, congratulations to both winners. In the Men’s race Clontarf took home team prize with Colm Walsh, Jim Tracey, Alberto Placencia and Brian Nolan. Thanks to Half Moon for holding this great race and to the race sponsor former Irish Olympic Swimmer Donnacha O’Dea, son of Siobhan McKenna.
On Saturday night North Dublin held the Jim Kavanagh and Plunket McAllister Cup, the Men’s race was won by Stephen O’Brien from North Dublin and the Women’s race was won by Catherine Leavy from Aer Lingus Master whose daughters play for Clontarf in Waterpolo, congratulations. Also well done to our young Swimmer 13 year old Philippe Tracey for finishing his first Open Sea Race Saturday night.
Finally to finish off a great weekend of Open Sea Swimming a big congratulation from Clontarf SC to Rachel Lee on swimming the English Channel in a fastest Irish Time of 9 hrs 40 min (to be ratified).
Next weekend on Saturday 20th August Clontarf hosts the Bobby Nolan Trophy at the Bull Wall, Men’s race starting at 1pm, Women’s race at 2pm, please come along and support. Then and on Sunday it’s the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Race.
Great result for Clontarf in the 97th Liffey Swim. The Men’s race was won by Brian Murray of Eastern Bay with a clock time of 30 min 46 seconds, the Womens race was won by Jennifer Gilbert from Swim4life with a clock time of 32 min 34 seconds. Congratulations from Clontarf to both winners. For Clontarf we had a fantastic result: in the Men’s race with Dario Fernandez coming in 2nd with a clock time of 32 min 15 seconds and a race time of 26 minutes with a 6.15 handicap, amazing race passing 201 swimmers. The next man home for Clontarf was Sean Nolan coming in 10th, a brilliant swim also by Sean with a clock time of 33 min 30 seconds. Clontarf had a great number of swimmers competing this year with two young guns representing the Club in Sean and Pierre, see below results. A very big thanks to the Leinster Open Sea committee and everyone involved in this event, it takes a lot to organise, also thanks to Will Dolan and Joe Kearns for the photos, finally a big thanks to all our families and friends who came out in strong numbers to support us in this iconic race. More swims next weekend the Jim Kavanagh & Plunkett McAlister is on Saturday 13th August starting at 7pm along the Bull Wall and Sunday 14th August is the Siobhan McKenna at 12.30pm at Killiney beach.
| Place | Hat | First Name | Surname | Clock Time | Handicap | Race Time |
| 2 | 203 | Dario | Fernandez | 00:32:15 | 06:15 | 00:26:00 |
| 10 | 179 | Sean | Nolan | 00:33:30 | 04:30 | 00:29:00 |
| 60 | 175 | Jim | Tracey | 00:34:16 | 04:15 | 00:30:01 |
| 63 | 163 | Martin | Reddington | 00:34:17 | 03:30 | 00:30:47 |
| 79 | 182 | Pierre | Tracey | 00:34:33 | 04:45 | 00:29:48 |
| 90 | 206 | Colm | Walsh | 00:34:41 | 06:15 | 00:28:26 |
| 124 | 180 | Jorn | Langhave | 00:35:08 | 04:45 | 00:30:23 |
| 130 | 106 | Gerry | Cleary | 00:35:14 | 02:15 | 00:32:59 |
| 181 | 161 | Alberto | Placencia | 00:36:15 | 03:30 | 00:32:45 |
| 209 | 246 | Ken | Turner | 00:37:08 | 10:15 | 00:26:53 |
Congratulations to Jim Tracey from Clontarf for winning the Cyril Duff Metro Perpetual Cup organised by Guinness SC at Sea point on the 30th July. Great win following on from last Sundays Team Prize in Malahide, again today we had a great turnout from Clontarf with 7 in the Men’s race (Dario, Martin, Gerry, Brian, Alberto Sean and Jim) and in the Women’s race Ane Rezola who finished 19 in her first sea race, well done to all the swimmers and thanks to Leinster Open Sea, Guinness SC for organising the Event and to the Duff family, this Swim is running since 1995 and had a great turnout in both the Men’s and Women’s Race. This weekend two more Swims are taking place; The Wicklow Open Swim at Wicklow Harbour on Sunday 31st July starting at 12pm and on Monday the Phoenix Swim starting at 10am Low Rock Malahide.
Great result over the weekend for our Open Sea Swimmers, on Friday night Pierre Tracey came 3rd in the Leinster Open Sea Double Dip swim at Killiney Beach. Then on Sunday Clontarf won the Team Prize with Martin Reddington 5th, Dario Fernandez 15th, Jim Tracey 19th and Gerry Cleary 27th in the International Orphan Aid Charity race at Low Rock Malahide, Clontarf had 7 swimmers participating in both races over the weekend, Well done to all the swimmers. If interested in open water swimming visit the http://leinsteropensea.ie/ website, sea races take place every weekend throughout the summer.
The Killiney Double Dip Liffey Swim and Harbour swim qualifier is coming up on July 22. Entry fee will be €15 and completing the race gives you a double qualifier – counts as two swims. The race also doubles up to help raise much needed funds for the Leinter Open Sea equipment fund and to aid planning for Dublin City Liffey Swim 100 and more. If you could volunteer a small bit of help for the 22nd please email leinsteropenseaswim@gmail.com – if swimming, men could help in ladies race and vice versa.
Liffey Entries are now available now Online, see http://leinsteropensea.ie/downloads/ . A number of Clontarft Swimmers and almost 200 other swimmers have surpassed six swims and can now enter the Dublin City Liffey Swim and Dun Laoghaire Harbour race Please enter (both) now – and help lighten the admin load on the race organisers by doing so early. Thanks in advance.
On the 26th June Clontarf SC hosted for the 83rd time the Island Swim, which starts just off Islands eye and ends at Balscadden beach in Howth, just under 100 swimmers took part in the event both Male and Female. The conditions were just right but the swimmers had to handle the tide pushing them out to sea. With a handicap of 5.30 the race was won by Paul Wynne from Half Moon in a clock time of 26.08 and race time of 20.38. Paul a well deserved winner has competed in this race more than 30 times and came 2nd in 1976. 2nd Place this year went to Ronan Joyce form NAC Masters and 3rd Place went to Rachel Lee from Guinness who also had a fantastic fastest time of 15.42, the team prize went to Aer Lingus Masters. Thanks to all the Volunteers who came out on the day, also thanks to the Dublin Bay Cruises, Leinster Open Sea Committee, Safety Boats and Kayaks. Without volunteers these events are not possible, thanks to all for making this event, which is very special to Clontarf SC another great success, see you all next year.
On Saturday June 25th the Club held our internal sea swim along the Bull Wall at Dollymount, ~100 people turned up to take part or support the sea races and then back to Clontarf GAA Club for the prizes and some well deserved food and drinks. Well done to all our swimmers ranging from 5 to 55, some taking to sea swimming for the first time. We had four sea races, the first was the Junior Girls race won by Mia Nolan with Lana Nolan 2nd and Robyn Joyce 3rd, a special thanks to Linda Barton for sponsoring the Girls prizes. Then the Junior Boys race was won by Philippe Tracey 1st, James Tracey 2nd and Jack Dolan 3rd, the Senior boys race was won by Philip Nolan 1st, Leo Costello 2nd and Iollann McKeon 3rd, special thanks to Joe Kearns for the Boys prizes. The Senior race was won by Colm Walsh 1st with Jorn Langhave 2nd and Gerry Cleary 3rd. Thanks to everyone involved on the day, from people who donated prizes, food, to our Chef’s and a big thanks to Clontarf GAA Club. A special mention to Bert O’Brien, Chairman of Leinster Waterpolo who came along and presented our Junior Waterpolo players with their Leinster League winning medals for the U12Mixed, U14Mixed and U14Boys leagues. It was a fantastic day with a great turnout, well done to all enjoy the summer.