Well done to all the Limerick Masters swimmers who travelled to Mallow on Saturday to take part in the annual Mallow Masters SC Gala. Plenty of PB’s were smashed. Alas we had to pass the Best Club Shield to Kilkenny Masters, well done fantastic swimming. As usual Mallow Masters did a fantastic job and as usual their bake off was a total hit with all swimmers…welll almost all…some of us did struggle a little more in that afternoon session. Swimmer of the gala was Anne Mulcair who took home 5 Gold medals. Swim of the gala went to Eleanor Cronin [&hellip

On Saturday 26th November, Limerick Masters attended the Mallow Masters Gala.  Despite the cold weather, and an early start, 22 members turned up to compete for the club. The club had a brilliant performance on the day and brought home a significant medal tally: Individual: 33 gold 23 silver 12 bronze Relays: 8 Gold 4 silver 4 bronze. The swimmer of the Gala was Paddy Healy. Well done Paddy. The club recently started entering our relays as mixed relays. This has proven to be a great success, and an enormous amount of fun. So far, our medal count is climbing, [&hellip

As the 2013 Winners of the Club Title we are looking for a stong participation for the trip to Mallow on Saturday December 6th. Entries are being collected by Diarmuid – see more details here Mallow Entry Form. Some swims have limited heats so get your name in FAST! We will be organising a bus to Mallow and plan to stay for the “Apres-Swim”…rumour has it there’s a big Munster game on so hopefully we will all be celebrating!!

So you will have had plenty of time to let the body rejuvenate after the “exertion” in Limerick. The Tralee event is always a great day out. Sometimes the day runs into a very late night but don’t let that put you off – you can always sleep on the bus home! The gala offers a great range of Short Course events and with a 10 a.m. start you can still get a bit of a snooze. See http://www.kingdomswimmingclub.ie/MastersInformation.html for more information. Please send your entries to Paddy on  healy.ptk@gmail.com

Some devout swimmers took to the road to Cork in the middle of February to test the gala waters of the Douglas pool. Congratulations to Colm Carty, Gerard Corry, John Dempsey, Paul Kearney Snr  & John Ryan who attended the Sundays Well Gala. Speaking to one participant “he” gave the following report “I got a warning from Coach Dempsey over being tardy on my dive start off the blocks.  Too much chatting to those around me instead of visualizing my swim” he said!!  The Coach was right. But the chat up lines were good. Coach Dempsey also refused to stop [&hellip