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\nOne of the surfers said a swell of this nature had not been seen in five years (Image: Red Bull)<\/p>\n
Some of the world’s top surfers descended on Mullaghmore, Co Sligo this morning to make the most of “spectacular” surfing conditions, not seen in five years.<\/p>\n
A Bundoran surfer, Conor Maguire, who was at the heart of the action, said a sea swell of its nature had not been witnessed since Hurricane Epsilon in October 2020.<\/p>\n
“We had seen a crazy charge on the forecast from a few days out, and no one could believe the numbers – a massive swell with so much energy and wind behind it.”<\/p>\n
The Red Bull athlete said waves breaking off Mullaghmore are among the top in the world.<\/p>\n
“People decided to travel here from across the world when the saw the weather chart about a week ago,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s more technical to ride a wave in Mullaghmore in comparison to somewhere like Nazar\u00e9 [in Portugal].<\/p>\n
“That\u2019s what makes it more appealing to surfers around the world”.<\/p>\n
Mr Maguire said swells of its nature are usually accompanied by strong westerly wind leaving conditions too dangerous.<\/p>\n
Many of the surfers were towed into the waves on jet skis.<\/p>\n
Jet ski drivers then matched the speed of the waves before surfers were released into the fast-moving waves.<\/p>\n
Australian James Carew who lives in Portugal described the conditions as “insane”.<\/p>\n
“We come for the swell. It was insane. I saw some of the craziest waves I\u2019ve seen in my lifetime today.”<\/p>\n
\nOne of the surfers said a swell of this nature had not been seen in five years (Image: Red Bull)<\/p>\n
French Red Bull Surfer Cl\u00e9ment Roseyro acknowledged that conditions were challenging.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m happy that everyone is back safe. It\u2019s our sport, pushing our limits\u2026 it was crazy. The shape of the waves was like the best art you can draw.”<\/p>\n
Brazilian Diego Ballestro who has lived in Ireland for four years said he “lived for days like this”.<\/p>\n
“The [surf] barrel was perfect. I am delighted to be sharing this with the local people. I want to say, thank you Ireland for days like this.”<\/p>\n
Conor Maguire was joined in the water by a crew of international Red Bull surfers including Justine Dupont from France, Natxo Gonzalez from Spain and Ben Larg from Scotland.<\/p>\n
Mr Larg, who hails from the Isle of Tiree, said various elements lined up perfectly.<\/p>\n
“You need everything to line up, including the tide, the wind and the swell. It\u2019s something you don\u2019t want to miss when it works.<\/p>\n
“It keeps us coming back because you get a good rush of adrenaline”.<\/p>\n
Peter Conroy who travelled from Miltown Malbay, Co Clare said the wind switched southwest in the afternoon, creating “spectacular waves”.<\/p>\n
“You\u2019re looking 40-50ft in size at the big sets of waves. These waves create this big barrel that you can get into and hopefully, get out.<\/p>\n
“Many of us train together. We had two doctors out there and a full medical kit to cover everything in the event of an emergency.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve been out since half seven this morning. We came back in for a bite of sandwiches, and we were back out for two hours. Great fun.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some of the world’s top surfers descended on Mullaghmore, Co Sligo this morning to make the most of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-198953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}