056: Shambles McGoldrick/Mysterious Currents
Show Notes
- Three days in Strandhill.
- The tightness of the local community.
- Growing up as part of the local surf community.
- ‘Manhill’
- Swell x Sligo event
- How communities such as Strandhill can balance the needs of the local community with tourism.
- Strandhill’s neolithic history.
- Yeat’s association with Sligo.
- First introduction to bodyboarding.
- Early Strandhill scene.
- Exploring the waves around Sligo and the wider Irish scene.
- How the west coast scene exploded within five years.
- The characters the west coast scene attracts.
- Four days with Jack Johns and Dan Skerowski.
- Setting the scene.
- Influence of Mickey Smith.
- The dangerous enigma of Riley’s.
- A fateful session.
- ‘It was the biggest wave I’d ever paddled at Riley’s.’
- Broken femur – and a near-death experience.
- Ferg and Mickey take charge.
- How an experience like this changes somebody.
- The importance of connections and community.
- Beginning the recovery process on the spot.
- Heli rescue.
- ‘I could feel my leg start to flutter in the breeze’.
- A spiritual experience.
- ‘Instantly I went into healing mode’.
- Learning to surrender to the situation.
- How Shamble’s wetsuit saved the day.
- Two needles, and a sentence you never want to hear.
- Morphine on tap.
- Ben Player ruptures his spleen at Riley’s.
- How Shambles helped Ben get through the experience.
- First time surfing after the injury.
- Early rehab- and the role of diet
- ’51% in’
- Riding Pipe with legends.
- ‘All these little things really helped the recovery and made me a more kinder person’.
- Shane’s trip to Pipeline
- A memorable first post-injury session at Mullaghmore
- The Shambles Pipeline fundraiser
- Pipeline culture shock
- Meeting Tom Morey
- Hawaiian and Polynesian culture.
- The Friends of Tom Morey Campaign
People Mentioned
- Owen Tozer
- Aoife Porter
- Allan Mulrooney
- Barry Mottershead
- WB Yeats.
- Mary and John McDermott.
- Andy Kilfeather
- Shane Meehan
- Ross McDermott
- Fergal Smith
- Mickey Smith
- Leroy Brown
- Thomas Robson
- Pierre Louis Costes
- Tom Gillespie
- Fintan Gillespie
- Peter Conway
- Andrew Cotton
- Tom Greenaway
- Tom Lowe
- Francois Letts
- Benjamin Sanchis
- Eric Reibiere
- Ben Player
- Jamie Mitchell
- Ed Temperley
- Mike Stewart
- Glen Matsunaga
- Paulo Barcellos
- Jeff Hubbard
- Ross Clarke Jones
- Will Skudin
- Sinead McGoldrick
- Tom Morey
- Melinda Morey
Places Mentioned
- Strandhill
- Indo
- Bali
- Aran Islands
- Donegal
- Dublin
- Easkey
- Knocknarea
- Carrowmore Tombs
- Leitrim
- Ben Bulben
- Hawaii
- Rileys
- County Clare
- Bumbaloids
- Aileens
- Mullaghmore
- Newquay
- Pipeline
COMPANIES/BRANDS/ORGANISATIONS/BANDS MENTIONED
- Shore Shots Irish Surf Film Festival
- SIRF
- Bua Marketing
- Carve Magazine
- 360 Magazine
- Stoked Restaurant
- Billabong
- Shell’s Cafe
- Go Strandhill
- Voga Seaweed Baths
- Sligo Surf Experience