24th March 2026 - still trying to get my head around the $1.5 billion “bet” placed 5 mins before the Trump TACO announcement. And we wonder why an autocratic theocracy like Iran has greater credibility in financial markets than the crime gang occupying the Oval Office #FortyFoot
9th March 2026 - Happy Monday as war in the Strait of Hormuz strangles 20% of the world’s oil supply, and Brent crude jumps 25% overnight. All that winning… 😩😩😩 #FortyFoot
4th March 2026 - watching Sec of War, “Whiskey Pete” Hegseth, in front of camera it’s difficult to fathom how he was plucked from Fox News to run a 3 million-person department and $1 trillion annual budget rather than star in “Blazing Saddles”…. #ClownShow #FortyFoot
2nd March 2026 - Happy Monday as Greek ships head towards Cyprus to defend against Persian aggression. Yep, that’s a 2026 headline…. #FortyFoot
1st March 2026 - Operation Epstein Fury going maximum distraction…. and it’s only March! #FortyFoot #Tehran #Dubai
25th Feb 2026 - One hour and 48mins of Trump State of The Union address topped off with the delusional “Please, please Mr President, we’re winning too much! We can’t take it anymore!” And this guy has the nuclear codes … #FortyFoot #SOTU
24th Feb 2026 - that date means 24 cold water minutes of the Freezbrury challenge but also means only 4 more sleeps until swimming without pain returns… #FortyFoot #Barretstown
23rd Feb 2026 - Happy Monday unless you’re on holiday in Mexico or your real name is John
Barron. Did the US President really just call in to a TV show to support tariff chaos? The fact it’s up for debate tells you all you need to know about the mess in Washington…. #FortyFoot
22nd Feb 2026 - reading that 40-50% of US total air power has now been deployed in the Middle East theatre. The Epstein “wag the dog” war of unforeseen consequences is really gonna happen, isn’t it? #FortyFoot
19th Feb 2026 - the tide turns on entitled immunity as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor is taken into police custody… the first senior royal arrest since 1647. Meanwhile, the Paedophile Protectorate, formerly known as the USA, wallows in collective amnesia … #Epstein #FortyFoot
18th Feb 2026 - who’s gonna tell Agent Orange? Goldman Sachs just described US stock market performance as “off to its worst year of relative performance… since 1995.” Yep, he’s still a pretty lousy casino operator… #FortyFoot
8th Feb 2026 - early Vitamin Sea to wash away 3 days of rugby disappointments 🏉🏉🏉, next up DLTC Winter League 🎾🎾🎾 #FortyFoot #Freezbrury
February 2, anniversary of the publication of James Joyce’s great novel Ulysses, which was published on Joyce’s 40th birthday in 1922. Images from #DublinBay, #Sandycove and the #Fortyfoot.
27th Jan 2026 - oh dear, US consumer confidence survey hits lowest levels in more than a decade. Strange because the Department of Truth (Social) keeps telling us the polls are “fake” and the US economy is the “hottest” on the planet…😳😳?? #FortyFoot
26th Jan 2026 - like the rain, the Tory 2.0 invasion of the UK’s Reform Party keeps on coming with “Cruella” Braverman the latest defector. Parody is dead but this could be likened to a Waffen SS tribute band getting together for another shot at public office … #FortyFoot
25th Jan 2026 - not sure ICE Commmandant Bovino or ICE Barbie Noem realise the wave of revulsion triggered by their Orwellian media performances and the lack of accountability for their Minneapolis “brownshirts” … more mad days ahead #FortyFoot
24th Jan 2026 - another death in Minneapolis prompts another wave of disgust as ICE storm troopers scramble for credible justification or proportionality.. #FortyFoot
19th Jan 2026 - the Trump letter to Norway’s PM is required reading and will go down in history as the most embarrassing diplomatic communication of all time. Shameful days in a US leadership vacuum… #FortyFoot
17th Jan 2026 - a dark day for the vanishing rules-based world order, as the madness of King Don threatens allies with tariffs to facilitate the conquest of another ally. Recent watchers of “Nuremberg” will recognise the catastrophic madness without “the scary uniforms” … #FortyFoot
Lots of happy faces yesterday evening. Even after a ‘surprise hill’ by the #FortyFoot 😎👍 #DLRSocial #ZeroTo5k
13th Jan 2026 - when the ECB and other global central banks feel the need to write an extraordinary “stand together” letter of support for the Fed Chair, you know they must be extremely concerned Agent Orange could trigger a financial nuclear explosion…where are the grownups in the GOP?? #FortyFoot
Photo of a Foamy and stormy part of the sea - Forty Foot, Dublin
Photo of swimmers in the freezing cold seat at Sandycove beach with a bit of blue sky above
Happy Xmas
#FortyFoot #MadSwimmers
Christmas Eve #Fortyfoot
#stormhour #speirgorm #thephotohour #blueskyphotography #Christmas #Nollaig
14th Dec 2025 - not a bad sporting weekend 🎾🎾🏉🏉⚽️⚽️But… Brown and Bondi tragedies darken the mood. #FortyFoot
12th Dec 2025 - Happy Friday, from tomorrow the sunsets start to come later … happy days! #FortyFoot
An image of the Forty Foot carved on a handcrafted SLATED Board slated.ie
The Forty Foot, carved in slate.
The board captures the rugged edge and energy of Dublin’s legendary bathing place — a place of bold dives and a timeless ritual of sea swimming.
#SLATED #fortyfoot #speirgorm #seaswimming #Dublin #Ireland
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3rd Nov 2025 - OpenAI at the centre of another huge infrastructure deal $38 billion of Nvidia chips/computing power to be supplied by Amazon/AWS. Hope former OpenAI board members are wrong about a “sociopathic liar” …. #FortyFoot
1st Nov 2025 - a fresh hit of vitamin sea to start a new month and bring on the All Blacks 🏉🏉💪💪 #FortyFoot
27th Oct 2025 - yes, House of Dynamite did disturb me, but it’s looking like a less scary Halloween week for investors… #FortyFoot
26th Oct 2025 - looks like US-China trade framework close to agreement, until the next Orange Toddler tantrum or challenging revelation of Reagan trade history… #FortyFoot
