Cabhair Christmas Day Swim 2009

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Cabhair Christmas Day Swim 2009

33 YEARS UNDER WATER........



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 33-years-young event was ‘born’…….

The CABHAIR Christmas Day Swim is, thankfully, still going strong and will be, as mentioned, 33-years-young on December 25th next!



Annual CABHAIR Christmas Morning Swim: 12 Noon, Grand Canal 3rd Lough, Inchicore, Dublin 8.

Photographs of last years event can be viewed here (http://www.indymedia.ie/article/90325)and, if you can’t make it to the actual swim itself, you might consider posting a donation to the following address (please note that all monies raised goes to the republican prisoners themselves and to their families - no expenses or admin fees etc are removed):

CABHAIR
Irish Republican Prisoners Dependants Fund
223 Parnell Street,
Dublin 1,
Ireland.
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"Is sochraidiu lám ol-dó-sa" ol coss.