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National - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970
Annual CABHAIR Christmas Swim.

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Wednesday October 06, 2010 15:07
by Sharon. - Individual.

An annual fundraiser for the families of Irish POW's.
This coming December 25th will mark the 34th consecutive CABHAIR Christmas Day Swim in the Grand Canal , Dublin !
Hi !
It began - properly structured and organised - in 1976 ,as a ‘fundraiser with a difference’ , combined with the need to gain extra publicity for a situation which was then - as now - making world headlines . Those that sat down together in early September 1976 to tighten-up the then ‘hit-and-miss’ affair were a dedicated team who fully understood that to fail in their business would not only bring derision on them and the issue they sought to highlight , but would give their enemy a publicity coup which they would exploit to the fullest extent . With that in mind , the team persevered - favours were called-in , guarantees were secured , provisions obtained and word dispatched to like-minded individuals in the near-locale . At the appointed time on the agreed day - 12 Noon , Christmas Day 1976 - a soon-to-be 34-years-young event was ‘born’…….
The CABHAIR Christmas Day Swim is , thankfully , still going strong and will be , as mentioned , 34-years-young on December 25th next!
Sponsored Swim * Christmas Day * 12 Noon * Grand Canal * 3rd Lough* Inchicore* Dublin*
Pics and a write-up re the 2009 Swim can be seen at the 'Related Link' below.
All Welcome!
Thanks,
Sharon.