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LOCATION DISTANCE TIME NAME DATE OF SWIM NOTES        
Camlough Lake, S Armagh 680k 10 days 220 swimmers 09/09/09 Organised by Aoiffe McCourt Lynch and Padraig Mallon.
    Round the clock     Vote for it as the 2009 event here. Watch footage here.
                   
Irish Sea 90k/56 miles 29hrs 56 min 6 person relay 2003 It took three attempts. Feilim Ó Maoláin wanted to attempt but weather did not permit
                   
Fastnet to Schull, Cork 20k   Stephen Redmond 2009          
                   
Aran Islands to Galway   15 hours Feilim Ó Maoláin 2002          
                   
Killary Fjord – 4,8,12mile 19.3k/12 miles 6hrs 27min Ronan Joyce   Record holder      
                   
Tory Island to Maheroarty 14k 5hrs 25min Dermot Duffy 1996 It has only been completed by three non-wetsuit swimmers.
    6 hrs 57min Anne McAdam 2003 Three others have swum the distance in wetsuit,
          most notably, local man Henry O’Donnell
         
       
Clew Bay 12k 5hrs 14min Owen Sisk 2003 Record holder      
                   
Boffin Swim 11.5k 2hrs 45min Colm O'Neill 2000 Race first held in '00, Colm was its first winner and set record
                   
Hinds-Rann-Killykeen, Cavan 11k/7miles 2hrs 17min Ronan Joyce   Record holder      
                   
Dublin Bay (Red Rock-DLao) 8.8k 2hrs 15min George Dunne 2004 Record holder      
                   
Hinds-Rann-Killykeen, Cavan 5.6k/3.5miles 1hr 45min Colm O'Neill   Record holder      
                   
                   
NAMES TO KNOW

                 
  Colm O’Neill     John Egan     Karen Molloy    
                   
  Clodagh Nolan     Conor Gunne     Grainne Moss (née Gunne)  
         
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