{"id":210595,"date":"2025-12-25T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210595\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T18:11:07","slug":"crowds-brave-chilly-temperatures-for-christmas-day-swim-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/210595\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds brave chilly temperatures for Christmas Day swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge crowds have taken part in the annual Christmas Day\u00a0swim\u00a0at a popular bathing spot in Dublin \u2013 including the \u201cForty Foot Santa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands thronged to the Forty Foot promontory in Sandycove as people pulled on Santa hats to take part in the festive dip despite bitterly cold conditions.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.resized.co\/breaking-news\/eyJkYXRhIjoie1widXJsXCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL2ltYWdlLmFzc2V0cy5wcmVzc2Fzc29jaWF0aW9uLmlvXFxcL3YyXFxcL2ltYWdlXFxcL3Byb2R1Y3Rpb25cXFwvMDU0NTJjNDZlZDUwMGYwYTI0ZGIxZjgyNDljNTRkNDVZMjl1ZEdWdWRITmxZWEpqYUdGd2FTd3hOelkyTnpVMU1EQXpcXFwvMi44Mjg4NzM0NC5qcGc_dz02NDBcIixcIndpZHRoXCI6XCI2NDBcIixcImhlaWdodFwiOlwiNDI3XCIsXCJkZWZhdWx0XCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL3d3dy5icmVha2luZ25ld3MuaWVcXFwvaVxcXC9ibi1ub2ltYWdlLnBuZ1wiLFwib3B0aW9uc1wiOntcIm91dHB1dFwiOlwiYXZpZlwiLFwicXVhbGl0eVwiOlwiNTVcIn19IiwiaGFzaCI6ImMzMzZlNGU1ZDc0NWJlN2Y5MzEwOTM3ZjU2MzIyNTlhMmQ3MDA1NmYifQ==\/crowds-brave-chilly-temperatures-for-christmas-day-swim.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Christmas Day swim \u2013 Dublin\" data-title=\"Christmas Day swim \u2013 Dublin\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Niall Carson\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>Local resident Veronica Hayward greets Patrick Corkery as he gets out of the water (Niall Carson\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Veteran swimmer Patrick Corkery has been doing the Christmas Day swim for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed as Santa, he joked: \u201cI just needed to do one more swim before I headed back to Lapland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"455\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.resized.co\/breaking-news\/eyJkYXRhIjoie1widXJsXCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL2ltYWdlLmFzc2V0cy5wcmVzc2Fzc29jaWF0aW9uLmlvXFxcL3YyXFxcL2ltYWdlXFxcL3Byb2R1Y3Rpb25cXFwvODU5MzMxMmQ4M2FiYzU0MjYzZTFiZDI0Mjc2NGQ3MWNZMjl1ZEdWdWRITmxZWEpqYUdGd2FTd3hOelkyTnpVMU1EQXpcXFwvMi44Mjg4NzMzOS5qcGc_dz02NDBcIixcIndpZHRoXCI6XCI2NDBcIixcImhlaWdodFwiOlwiNDU1XCIsXCJkZWZhdWx0XCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL3d3dy5icmVha2luZ25ld3MuaWVcXFwvaVxcXC9ibi1ub2ltYWdlLnBuZ1wiLFwib3B0aW9uc1wiOntcIm91dHB1dFwiOlwiYXZpZlwiLFwicXVhbGl0eVwiOlwiNTVcIn19IiwiaGFzaCI6IjI2ODE3YzE0NWYxMDgyNjdkM2JkZTQyNWZmYThlNmJiNWIzOTg2MTgifQ==\/crowds-brave-chilly-temperatures-for-christmas-day-swim.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Christmas Day swim \u2013 Dublin\" data-title=\"Christmas Day swim \u2013 Dublin\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Niall Carson\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>Patrick Corkery at the Forty Foot bathing spot in Sandycove (Niall Carson\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is fantastic although it\u2019s a bit rough today. You need to keep an eye on the waves on a day like today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe water is about seven degrees. It is freezing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Day\u00a0swims\u00a0are held in locations across Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huge crowds have taken part in the annual Christmas Day\u00a0swim\u00a0at a popular bathing spot in Dublin \u2013 including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-210595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210595","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=210595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}