Waterford Viking Halliwick Swim Club

Our very own talented Halliwick volunteer, well done Scott 👏🏻 🥇 Scott is a brilliant instructor to all our swimmers, what an inspiration 😎🤩

Fenor's Scott Murray brings home the gold from the European Transplant Games - wlrfm.com Fenor's Scott Murray has just returned from representing Ireland at the European Transplant Games in the Netherlands. In 2022, Scott received a bone marrow transplant from his sister, Zola, following a diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. After his in...

Best of luck to our brilliant swimmers competing at the Special Olympics National Games in Dublin over the next few days! 🏊‍♀️ 🇮🇪

Our club is very proud of you all, go compete but most of all enjoy every minute of the experience 🤩👏🏻

Viking Halliwick Team 🩵 ☘️

Our 3 swimmers and 2 coaches heading off to Dublin in June for the National Special Olympics Games (Sarah, Éanna, Luke, Niamh, Monica)

They spent their Easter Saturday at the Munster Squad Training in UL 🏊‍♀️🐣 They got on great and are training really hard on their events every Thursday Splashworld Tramore.

Thanks again to Special Olympics Waterford and all the instructors & parents involved 😎

Viking Halliwick

Luke & Sarah off to the first Team Munster Special Olympics training day in UL for swimming 🏊

We are thrilled 3 of our swimmers made it on to Team Munster for the National Games in Dublin in June. 🇮🇪

Thank you to Special Olympics Waterford for accommodating our swimmers at the regional games last year. This is the first big competition our swimmers are taking part in and we couldn’t be prouder 👏🏻

Also thank you to our amazing Halliwick Instructors and Volunteers for training all our swimmers every week 🙌

🥵It’s that time of year again, all systems go!

🏊We are looking for volunteers to join our 2025/2026 season. You DO NOT have to be a swimmer!

ℹ️Our voluntary swim club will commence on Thursday 18th of September in Splashworld Tramore 4.30-5.30pm.

ℹ️Waiting list in operation for swimmers.

📩Please email [email protected] for more information.

ℹ️Volunteer Training; Thursday 11th of September 4.30-5.30pm in Splashworld. Our Senior instructors will introduce you to the Halliwick Method and safe support holds when working with swimmers. No swimmers for training.

📩 If you wish to volunteer please email your interest to [email protected]

🏊‍♀️To all our existing swimmers and volunteers we look forward to another successful year of swimming 🙏

🩵Viking Halliwick Team

SportAbility Day 2025 Five Local Sports Partnerships are coming together to create our first ever joint SportAbility Day

We had our first Swim Gala outside of our club back in March. All our swimmers took home a bronze, sliver or gold medals 💯🏊 well done to all our swimmers, parents and volunteers who attended on such an enjoyable day out 👏🩵 thank you to Special Olympics Waterford Special Olympics Munster for hosting this event 🙌

Great surfing sessions for children with disabilities. Check out Waterford Sports Partnership and T-Bay Surf Club 🩵💯

Thanks to Ursula and Brid for delivering a very enjoyable course👏 Everyone has gone away with a bundle of halliwick knowledge, four days of immense theory and 8 pool sessions. Lots of new ideas and fun games to put into practice come September 🏊💯🤔🤓🩵💚