About the club
About Dublin Swimming Club
Founded in 1881, Dublin Swimming Club is Dublin’s and Ireland’s oldest and friendliest swimming club. We have both a men’s and women’s team as well as junior members. We heartily welcome new Masters members to our club. Dublin Swimming Club is ideal if you wish to compete or simply enjoy your swimming. We welcome enquiries from all interested in swimming. Members hail from Cork, Clare, Wexford, Monaghan, Kilkenny, Northern Ireland, Spain, France, England, Italy and elsewhere. We even have a few native Dubs.
Heritage You Can Touch
The club boasts the oldest swimming trophy in Ireland. Dating from 1882, the Ormonde Cup is presented annually to the first male club swimmer home in our club sea race, usually held mid-Summer (end June / early July) at Windsurfers Pier, between Dun Laoghaire and Seapoint in south County Dublin. An only slightly more modern trophy, the Purcell Cup, dating from 1927, is presented to the first club lady home. During the off season, the club holds a number of members only races with winners also receiving fabulous old trophies. Races include a 400m pool race, an 800m pool race and a St Stephen’s Day swim at Sandycove.
Summer 2016 Leinster Open Sea League Review
Summer 2016 Leinster Open Sea League Review
Dublin Swimming Club certainly painted the Leinster Open Sea season blue this year by claiming the ladies team prize and coming second in the men’s.
It was a testament to the sheer enthusiasm of all our members that we rated so high in the open water swimming calendar in 2016…and we had great fun in the process with lots of club members turning up at every race.
This year we had many new open water swimmers, some first timers, last minuters and the usual gang of open water addicts turning up for their weekly racing fix! So stand up, take a bow, give yourself a handshake and a pat on the back; you had a great season and you did your club proud!
In the swimmer of the year competition Claire finished 4th overall and received the new prize, Christine came 3rd and got SuperMaster of the year…and the Ladies swimmer of the year 2016 was Jennifer Murrin. A special mention to Sandra who finished 8th overall (and missed by few hairs the Master of the year title. Lady Captain Máiréad and Julie-Ann finished 14th ex-equo, Marie K 19th, Jessica 20th, Mary Rose 22nd and Amy K 27th.
In team awards, Ladies Club of the Year 2016 was Dublin Swimming Club. Moving to the men, our gallant swimmers were close, but no cigar, claiming second place in the team competition for the season. As with the ladies there were many individual wins and places during the vourtse of the season.
Looking at individual swimmers overall, Niall came 6th overall and was awarded Vet of the year. The second Dublin swimmer Barry finished 16th, Marco ranked 27th and not far behind was Paul in 30th. Also close was Andrew, long-standing Dublin member in his first open water season in 36th. Next were Yves 65th, Ceall 69th, Oriel and Dermot both 87th and Jody 104th. The 10 first DSC men were in the top 100-ish.
To quote Jennifer in her Swimmer of the year speech, “Dublin is a super Club, you are a wonderful bunch of people.”
Club members have also participated in many other open water events during summer 2016 including the Scilly Islands Challenge: a swim between island event with 15k of swimming in the one day, the 1.5k Glendalough swim and Glendalough 3.9k swim, Sandycove near Kinsale, the River Barrow race, Helvic and many others.
Masters Sprint Gala 2016
The time is drawing back around this year for our much subscribed Masters Sprint Gala . . .
The date is Sunday 25th September, 3:30pm (warmup 3pm).
The venue is the pool Balrothery Community Sports Centre, Tallaght.
This year we are adding 200 free to the bill along with the regular events we run. You can download the gala application pack [ here ]
