The passion of the Irish swimming community for open water swimming is clearly obvious at their Irish Long Distance Swimming Championship 17k & 25K that serves as a National Championship event of Swim Ireland.
The 2015 results of the Lough Erne National Championships just recently completed in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland as reported by the ILDSA are as follows:
Male 25 km 1. Aidan Hickey (Phoenix Swim Club) 6:59:58 2. James Scallon (NAC Masters) 8:55:49
Male 17 km 1. Paul Manning (ILDSA) 4:26:22 2. Jody Clarke (Dublin Swim Club) 4:58:01 3. Jon Glover (Lecale) 5:07:45
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