The seeds of Season 11 | 2024 for infinity Channel Swimming were fed by reflection. We visited previous trials and tribulations of the North Channel launching our ‘Deep End’ series. Podcasts are… Read more “Season 11 | 2024”

Meet the Irish women who swam to Scotland: ‘We all wanted it… It wasn’t just about doing it, but doing it in a good time’ The 42km swim from Ireland to Scotland… Read more “‘We all wanted it… It wasn’t just about doing it, but doing it in a good time’”

⏱️14 hours 15 minutes 29 seconds (unratified yet) First day of the season! Second swim of the season! So on Saturday 15th June 2024 we left the house around 4am to head… Read more “🇮🇪🏊‍♂️🏊‍♂️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏊🏻‍♀️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NORTH CHANNEL RELAY 2024!”

infinity Channel Swimmings Pádraig Mallon presented Harry Jordan with a Poseidon trophy acknowledging his passion for community and his love of Open Water swimming. Harry spoke to a full of Open Water… Read more “Harry Jordan receives the infinity Lough Keepers Award”

A DNF for me today….. no excuses, I just couldn’t do it….. I started at 3am this morning and was in for the 10 hour swim but only got to 3 hours… Read more “The bell must be rung later as I’ve well and truly ‘Hit the Wall’!”

infinity Channel Swimming sponsorship and partnership with @dotsswim_loughneaghdunkers for another year. Chatting with one of the founding members of the club Dorothy, she expressed her gratitude to infinity Channel Swimming who have… Read more “infinity Channel Swimming and Dots Swim Club Partnership”

First off, I can’t say enough about Infinity’s Hit the Wall Training camp and the team that Jacqueline and Padraig have put together. Their love of open water swimming is infectious! The camp they… Read more “Swim Camp- Hitting the Wall, Climbing Over and Hitting the Wall Again”

HITtheWALL with infinity Channel Swimmings annual cold water camp is announced as #winner of the #wowsaawards2023 Event of the year. HITtheWALL now in its 8th year is a four day open water… Read more “HITtheWALL WINNER 2023 WOWSA Event of the year”

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we’re here to explore new possibilities. Ray Charles The infinity family celebrate the presentation of this wonderful Ships Wheel presented to infinity… Read more “Ships Wheel presented to Jacqueline”

Callum Eade of New Zealand became the 100th person to cross the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland on 8 August 2022. He was also the 60th man to complete the swim… Read more “Callum makes it 100”

It’s been a busy three weeks swimming three different channels. Gibraltar, Bristol and the North Channel. In doing so it has given me the Irish Triple Crown (Fastnet, Galway and the North… Read more “The North channel competed!”

Every good adventure is born from a thought.  At infinity, be it Channel swimming or Swim Academy the next generation are paramount to us.  Anyone who has swam with us and have… Read more “Visualise today what you want from tomorrow”

I did it!!!! Yesterday I swam a total of 41km in 11 hours 46 minutes becoming the youngest person to ever swim the North Channel, a world record! It was incredible, beautiful… Read more “Jessika swims”

2 years ago, Jessika had her first experience of the North Channel, as Jordans support swimmer. Jess had already got the bug for open water after being taken in by the Lough… Read more “So, yesterday, here we go… 💕 it’s a long one! 🤣”

  Some years back, we decided to undertake an adventure on the Cook Strait.  At the time it seemed like a pipe dream to pilot and support swimmers across the Cook Strait… Read more “An adventure on the Cook Strait”

Cook Strait NZ 14.03.2023 S-N Herman Van Der Westhuizen South Africa 8:27:14 The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. Marcus Aurelius DNF 20.02.2020, A day… Read more “The obstacle is the way”

Stormforce under a Storm Moon Andrew Donaldson Scotland Cook Strait S-N 7.03.2023 4:33:50 Press Forward Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark left before you.… Read more “Press forward”

Callum Eade New Zealand 6:41:05 1.3.2023 Cook Strait (S-N) Number 100 swimmer (11:40 8.8.2022 IRL – SCO ) was a powerful accolade to celebrate following his successful swim across the North Channel… Read more “Straight across the Strait”

Following Cyclone Gabrielle there was little hope of any fair weather days in this neap window for USA brothers Joe and John Zemaitis. Spending their days in Picton watching the Super Bowl… Read more “The day The Brothers met ‘The Brothers’”

Leaving Perano Head in the darkness with a 04:52hrs start and her blue adventure light matching the blue hue glow of the bioluminescence, Brazilian @ale_rossi_cima_swims Alessandra Rossi Cima commenced her Cook Strait… Read more “You can’t always see it but it is always there!”

A whistle stop tour of 2021 with infinity: in, on around the water. Tell me and I might forget, teach me and I remember involve me and I learn. As we celebrate… Read more “infinity Season 8: 2021”

We had fun and lots of adventures in, on and around the water. Every year Mother Nature and all of you amazing people in the world of open water swimming teach us… Read more “Adieu 2022”

A mother-of-five from Co Armagh who had her leg amputated and underwent a double mastectomy is celebrating her remarkable recovery by training for a triathlon. Rosie Tennyson (41), from Forkhill, said she… Read more “Mother marks recovery from amputation and mastectomy by training for triathlon”

The North Channel is the name given to the stretch of water between Northern Ireland and Scotland, measuring approximately 35km.  In late 2019 I decided I wanted to prone paddle across it,… Read more “North Channel attempts”

  Whilst out Carlingford Lough infinity crew Nicky Donnelly came upon a gentleman who was in need of immediate rescue at sea. He was sitting on CLC buoy 22. He had been… Read more “Rescue at Sea”

My North Channel Swim experience started at 8am, Tuesday AUG-9, on a rocky outcrop in Donaghadee, NI. After elegantly waving to the sendoff party I entered the water and immediately smashed into… Read more “Sarah Philpott”

My journey to the North Channel goes all the way back to 2011, when my good friend Craig Lenning became the first American to complete this swim. He was the 12th person to… Read more “Super Sarah NC 2 way”

In this post I’ll tell the story of my North Channel crossing, what it meant for me, and how I prepared for it. A month after my swim I’m still in disbelief,… Read more “The North”

‘A good coach is someone who sees beyond your limits and guides you to greatness’ Dorothy Johnston – Many many accolades. These three are testimony to an amazing lady who we are… Read more “Coach Dorothy Johnston”

A Flat calm at the start, a little rattle of turbulence in the middle and flat calm at the end that’s the words used to describe today’s swim completed by Swiss open… Read more “Rattlin’ Rathlin – And that she did”

Wow, I have finally managed to piece together my swim yesterday.  It has taken me back to my uni days of having to piece together a drunken night out through chatting to… Read more “Nicola Murch puzzle pieces”

Thank you to everyone who followed our swim from Ireland to Scotland.  An even bigger thank you to those who supported the swimmers by sponsoring what you could to provide support to… Read more “The North Channel Lion Tamers July 2021”

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Sea Shepherd mission is to defend, conserve and protect our ocean. Sea Shepherd is an international, non-profit marine conservation organization that engages in direct action campaigns to defend wildlife and conserve and… Read more “infinity Channel Swimming supporting SEA SHEPHERD”

When we send a vision board to @Wojciech Lecki www.simplylogodesign.ie and he gets it! Thank you simply logo design! Delighted with our new logo for the Carlingford Lough Swim (22.5K). The new… Read more “See it, believe it, achieve it.”

  Sporting her infinity yellow swim cap how proud are we at infinity to see this amazing lady’s progress in so many ways.    Early 2020 infinity Crew encouraged Kathleen to get… Read more “Cold water dipping improves wellbeing for Kathleen and so many”

There were 3 steps: 1. Nominate 🔊 someone from home and someone from abroad 2. Donate 💰 to Southern Area Hospice 3. Wait ⏲ For the ice water to be tipped over… Read more “Milos infinity Channel Swimming Bucket Challenge raises £3760.00”

The Sea is our playground, with a Spring in our step and in the month of LOVE infinity launch FebruarSea – a 28 day photo competition challenge {BTW We love the lakes,… Read more “#FebruarSea”

Colin Lindsay’s photo of Chris Judge from the Guinness World Record OA Giants team as he swims his relay section on their journey from Isla, Scotland to Ireland appears for December in… Read more “December to Remember”

Celebrating the first full moon of 2021 on 27th January [The Wolf Moon] in collaboration with Moon Times infinity created this calendar for the ‘ArmaDown Social Swimmers’ with simple QRCode access to… Read more “‘the sun heals my body, the moon heals my soul’”

IF YOUR DREAMS DON’T SCARE YOU YOU’RE NOT DREAMING BIG ENOUGH.  Infinity V team had a dream and today it became a reality 7.8.15 with Infinity Channel Swimming INFINITY V relay team… Read more “If your dreams don’t scare you”

15 Aug 2018 at 08:01A wee story for the history books GLORY COMES FROM DARING TO BEGIN  ‘The Isle of Man Channel’Following on from the Guinness World Record at Camlough Lake in 2009… Read more “Glory comes from daring to begin”

A new start to the open water swimming history books and in the history of marathon swimming commences as the 210•SOUTHWEST relay team complete the Dál Riata channel crossing. This swim was… Read more “Hungry eyes see far”

SUCCESS CANNOT ALWAYS BE MEASURED BY A FINISH LINE The Dál Riata Channel swim with Infinity Channel Swimming. On Saturday, 11th July 2015 Team 210oSOUTHWEST set off from Cushendal to travel to the… Read more “Success cannot always be measured by a finish line”

Here’s another fantastic guest post from Nuala Moore detailing the saga of Annemarie Ward and her North Channel swims. Great job, Nuala (and Annmarie)! Click here to read the full story

Celebrating the achievements of 2020 by open water swimmers around Ireland and Swimmers from Ireland across the globe. The 14th ILDSA Annual Awards and Ireland Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremony in… Read more “ILDSA Golden Moments of 2020”

The brief was to capture the 2019 season in a five-minute vlog. infinity Channel Swimming North Channel 2019 in 5 minutes? Possible? Yes ! 5 mins are squeezed to bursting. From sun… Read more “2019 Roundup for infinity Channel Swimming”

Like millions of events this year, the annual ‘Milo Dip’ on New Years’ morning at Camlough Lake has been called off due to the new lockdown restrictions. So we diversified and reinvented… Read more “The Milo Ice Bucket Challenge”

infinity Channel Swimming offers you many opportunities to swim from and to Irelands’ shores. To date, we have pioneered new routes, tweeked older routes, and created new ones.  Every journey is weather,… Read more “All Routes”

infinity Channel Swimming’s Directors Pádraig Mallon and Jacqueline McClelland are inducted to the Ireland Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Class of 2021. Congratulations! To read all about this Click Here

A new challenge For years number of years the normal Lough swimming trend has tended to be either up or down The Lough (NW or SW) or in one instance in 2020,… Read more “The Savage Swim”

Take a teaspoon of cement, and toughen the hell up! It says something about a person, when they choose to take on the challenge of swimming the North Channel. I am not… Read more “Anna’s North Channel Swim”

infinity Channel Swimming Director and Chairperson of ILDSA Pádraig Mallon interviewed on WOWSA’s ‘Open Water Wednesday’ with open water greats Ned Denison and Steven Muñatones. Ned Denison had a fascinating wide-ranging discussion with Pádraig… Read more “Pádraig Mallon And Ned Denison Talk About Unbelievable Courage”

Marathon, open water and ice swimmers have to learn to accept the fact they will feel cold. That’s part of the sport, both during and after the event – an after drop… Read more “The Umbles”

#beyondyourlimits HITtheWALL 2019.  infinity Channel Swimming’s 5th year offering you a challenge beyond your limits Take a look at the adventures we have from Camlough Lake to Carlingford Lough    HITtheWALL 2019 itinerary:… Read more “CHALLENGE YOURSELF “

GLORY COMES FROM DARING TO BEGIN Fast and Frozen North Channel 2 way relay team 27th – 28th July 2015 with Infinity channel swimming. In February of 2015 following competition at Murmansk, Russia International Ice Swimming Association 1k… Read more “First EVER 2 way of the North Channel”

HUNGRY EYES SEE FAR A new start to the open water swimming history books and in the history of marathon swimming commences as the 210•SOUTHWEST relay team complete the Dál Riata channel… Read more “First successful relay crossing of the Dál Riata Channel”

Infinity V team had a dream and today it became a reality 7.8.15 with Infinity Channel Swimming   INFINITY V relay team Gillian McShane, Joe Belton, David Burke, Thomas O’Hagan and Noel… Read more “infinity V successful North Irish Channel Relay”

SUCCESS CANNOT ALWAYS BE MEASURED BY A FINISH LINE  The Dál Riata Channel swim with Infinity Channel Swimming. On Saturday, 11th July 2015 Team 210oSOUTHWEST set of from Cushendal to travel to the… Read more “The Dál Riata Channel swim with Infinity Channel Swimming.”

Following on from the successes of the HITtheWALL trilogy, HITtheWALL 2018 boasted a sell-out four day open water swimming weekend with a global attendance list including Australia, Norway, South Africa, UK and… Read more “2018 Round Up”

15 Aug 2018 at 08:01 A wee story for the history books   GLORY COMES FROM DARING TO BEGIN    ‘The Isle of Man Channel’     Following on from the Guinness… Read more “TRISKELION Isle of Man to Ireland”