Swim Ireland and Leinster Open Sea in dispute over historic Liffey and Dún Laoghaire swims
The future of Dublin’s two most prestigious open air swimming competitions is in doubt due to a turf war between two swimming organisations.and Leinster Open Sea made rival bids to run this year’s Liffey Swim, due to take place next month, and the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Race, which is scheduled for Sunday.
The organisations had been in a mediation process relating to disputes over the constitution of LOS, Swim Ireland’s affiliation process and disagreements in relation to insurance cover provided by Swim Ireland for races. With no resolution in sight, LOS, which has a membership of more than 20 sea swimming clubs, said it decided to secure its own insurance ahead of this year’s racing season, which began in May.
“The Harbour Authorities reserve one day a year for a swimming race in Dún Laoghaire Harbour. LOS has excellent working relations with the Harbour Authorities and felt Swim Ireland put the Harbour Authorities in an unfair situation. Therefore, we withdrew our application.” “Our event is tried and tested, we have the experience, we’ve been running it for years. This is the 100th anniversary of Jack B Yeats winning the Olympic silver medal for his painting The Liffey Swim and we have already commissioned replica medals that will be presented to all finishers of our annual historic Liffey Swim which will take place on September 21st.
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