{"id":622513,"date":"2026-09-12T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622513\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:40:14","slug":"would-you-swim-in-the-liffey-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/622513\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you swim in the Liffey? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OVER 300 SWIMMERS will plunge into the Liffey this afternoon for the annual Dublin City Liffey Swim.<\/p>\n<p>It is the 106th year of the sporting tradition which sees competitors swim 2.2km through the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>The race starts at Rory O\u2019More Bridge and finishes in front of the Custom House, passing underneath 11 bridges along the route.<\/p>\n<p>    <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@TheJournalVideo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Journal<\/a> \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>So, today we\u2019re asking:\u00a0Would you swim in the River Liffey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OVER 300 SWIMMERS will plunge into the Liffey this afternoon for the annual Dublin City Liffey Swim. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[615,61,60,264297,201349,850,112,13675,3866,3867],"class_list":["post-622513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-liffey-swim","tag-river-liffey","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-swimming","tag-the-daily-poll","tag-your-say"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622513","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=622513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}