so what's more important Bloomsday ...

...or Dublin 0-16 Meath 0-12?

Well the gang in DCU tonight with the Dublin team will leave you with do doubt!

Great weekend again - long Bloomsday Saturday on the beach with a first - both Jedi and Tes-B were on the beach.

Good work done on skis with skills work improving. Seeing 35 rescue torpedo buoys / can buoys on the beach was incredible and simply takes your breath away

Swims this week - Thur 7pm (with pizza) & Sat 3pm @ Claremount - if you need info or directions just email us at sthoee Lifeguards Dublin : info@sthoeelifeguardsdublin.com

Work update: graffiti removed, racking reinstalled, beach cleaned and a mattress towed away!, its been a strange couple of swims with some strange stuff washing ashore - really really strange stuff - a few pics going up and will be linked here shortly and a here's a very short new lifeguard video !

cool jellyfish pic above = some video coming (and yes it was released)

surf lifeguard Dublin

So we expected a quiet mid week swim, low tide.

We got more than we expected. Surf, yup surf on Claremount, on a low tide. awesome.

balance of the torps arrived this evening along with the installation of the reel & line.

There are few things more fun than a large gang of Dublin Lifeguards and lifesavers grabbing boards for an unexpected surf lifesaving session, few things more fun than an open water swim overrunning by a couple of hours, few things more fun than packing by torchlight, few things better than unpacking lifeguard rescue buoys, this swim will go down in history!

many thanks to Richard, Peter and Louise for donating gear. appreciated.

and finally a new seal on the beach. very unexpected.

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Long hot day on the beach today with some old friends dropping by.

not sure we have ever seen so many people, swimmers, skis or gardaí - in fairness I cannot believe the beach could fit so many people!

A massive addition to the photo album on >sthoee.com >here and lots of new swimmers

small work done on the door and tweaks around the sides. good day !

........ and perhaps a name that's sticking

theres no place like 216.128.67.177

Quick update

Grafitti is gone ! - its gong to be a running battle but one worth fighting.
Some sealing done around the doors and a little tweaking here and there (photos up shortly on the bebo)

Spread the word - Saturday Swim 3-6ish

& if you are doing exams - chill - we are right behind you and have saved a place on the beach for you when you are done

ta.......

Well that was one busy weekend.

Congrats to those who got their award of merits, Lifesupport 3s and to Si on his Lifesaving TA.

More work on the beach today - eyewash station, v-vacs, & collars up, paddle racks up, board racks redone, most of the internal first coat and roof done.

Plan is to have one evening to tidy up the balance of the grafitti and Saturday with a "working" swim.

For everyone who assisted at the waterski session, painted - scraped - knotted and to the gang who did what we do (lifesaving) - its was one hulluva weekend.

ta !

so what happened....

.........the weather?

long swim today, long time out on the ski in conditions best described as cloudy (live Howth weather)

Last of the new boards arrived - the sight on the water was seriously impressive.

The team did a lot more work on the beach hut - racking is about 40% complete, doors painted, some maintenance started, and about a third of the graffiti sorted.

Thanks as always to our friends in Fingal CoCo for sorting the rubbish - beach looks great

and lifeguards are on the beach... its summer... its official