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These expats are redefining big wave surfing in Ireland
In Chapter Three of Made In Ireland, we meet the expats who left home to live amid the crazy weather and epic waves of Ireland, and who've helped put Irish big-wave surfing on the map.
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Made In Ireland: Chapter Three – The Misfits
In Episode Three of the Made In Ireland, you'll get to meet the expats who have moved to Ireland for its big, burly waves.
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"There are very few people who will endure that kind of hardship," Irish surfer Conor Maguire says of his mates who uprooted from their homelands to live in Ireland and surf its big, burly waves.
Two of the hearty souls Maguire's talking about are South African Barry Mottershead and Australian Noah Lane. Both men came to Ireland as surf tourists, but couldn't seem to bring themselves to board the plane back home.
Australian Noah Lane, like a hot knife through butter
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The beauty of Ireland's big-wave venues is like nothing else in the world
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Conor Maguire, under the Mullaghmore guillotine
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In Ireland, big waves mean freezing cold
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As filmmaker Mikey Corker zeroed in on the final episode of his short documentary, Made In Ireland, he wanted to get inside the minds of Mottershead and Lane to understand why, and how, they've become two of Ireland's most diehard big-wave surfers.
Corker dug even deeper than that, though. Along with Mottershead and Lane, he explored what it means to be a big-wave surfer in Ireland today, with native chargers like Maguire, Peter Conroy, and Seamus 'Shambles' McGoldrick.
There are very few people who will endure that kind of hardship
