Limerick Masters Swim Club

Tom O’Donnell, pictured with his Aussie Relay Team Kate, Nadine & Jasmin 🙌

Congratulations to our 10K Crew today, we have new marathon swimmers to add to the list; Sarah Coughlan, Aoife McGuinness, Ide Mulcahy, Aisling Armshaw, Liz Ryan & Eugene Higgins. Well done also to Andrea Newport, Linda Newport, Maria Ryan, Tom Moloney, Diarmuid Hanrahan, Alejandro Vera and John Ryan who are no strangers to the 10K! 💪🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️

Day 3 ✅ well done all, 1500M & 2.5K 🏊‍♂️🏊‍♀️

Day 2, 3.8K ✅🏊‍♀️🏊‍♂️

Day 1 at Best Fest 5K 🏊‍♂️🏊‍♀️✅ well done all, a very pleasant swim, PBS achieved and congratulations to Conal and Mairead who swam their first 5K’S.

Thomond Swim 26 is fast approaching, reminder Early Bird offer ends this Monday, May 4th

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Thomond Swim 2026 - Buy Tickets This year the Thomond Swim will take place on Saturday 13th June 2026 at 16:30 in Limerick City.

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Thomond Swim 2026 - Buy Tickets This year the Thomond Swim will take place on Saturday 13th June 2026 at 16:30 in Limerick City.

A massive well done to all who participated over the last two days! We are already looking forward to next year, which will be a significant year in Limerick Masters History, as we will be celebrating 40 years as a club.

Again a big thank you to Swim Ireland, UL Arena, our gala officials, sponsors, Red Cross, timekeepers, volunteers from Celtic Waves and Limerick Swimming Club, Without all their help, our gala simply couldn't happen.

As part of our gala , every year we award 7 trophies. The first 3 trophies are calculated based on the swimmer with the time closest to their Age Group World Record for that event. Records used are as of 02/02/2026 from World Aquatics.

Kearney Cup for the 1500m free
Dymphna Morris from Aer Lingus won with a time of 22:29.18. This is 108.6% of the 65-69 age group world record.
In second place was Rob Genst from Glenalbyn Masters SC with a time of 23:42.06 which is 112.6% of the 75-79 age group world record

Jim Neylon Trophy for the 50 Breaststroke
Paul Kearney from Limerick Masters won with a time of 35.5 seconds which is 120.6% of the 50-54 age group world record.
In second place was Emma Hobbs from Dublin SC with a time 39.28 which is 121.88% of the 30-34 age group world record

Limerick Masters Cup for the 50 Free
Dan Golden from NAC won with a time of 31.43 seconds which is 110.7% of the 75-79 age group world record.
In second place was Sarah Farrelly from Aer Lingus with a time of 29.69 which was 111.1%% of the 50-54 age group world record

Congratulations to Dymphna, Paul and Dan on their excellent swims.

The next 3 trophies are individual awards based on points, with a swimmer's best 4 results counting. In the event of ties, the next criteria is age.

Best Female Swimmer
Nell Mc Carthy from Castlebar SC

Best Male Swimmer
Liam Daly from Aer Lingus

Best Overseas Swimmer
Brian McShea from East Anglian Swallows, England, a repeat winner on 80 points
Joint second on 66 points were Apostolia Kryanoudi from Othak Kavalas Greece and Daniel Falk from SV Stahl Hennigsdorf E.V. Germany

The final trophy is
Best Visiting Club.
This was won by Aer Lingus with a total team score of 2386.
Second were NAC Masters on 1078
Cork Masters were third with 875 points.

A few more shots from yesterday’s afternoon session