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TurfnSurf Lodge & Surf School, Bundoran and Strandhill, Ireland t: +353 (0) 71 98 41091 e: info@turfnsurf.ie |
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About Us
The Instructors
Tara MacDonald
| Age: | 30 |
| Years Surfing: | 5 |
| Favourite Break: | Pampa |
| Surfing Role Models: | Housemates |
| Other Interests: | Drinking, achieving a Scottish independent nation. |
 | Hailing from the Highlands of Scotland, I moved to Bundoran where surfing quickly became a natural progression. Now teaching for 2 years, and getting paid for it, I reckon that it must be one of the best jobs in the world! Were else will a Scottish lassie teach you to surf, but on the west coast of Ireland! |
Killian O'Kelly
| Age: | 33 |
| Years Surfing: | 20 |
| Favourite Break: | Blackspot |
| Surfing Role Models: | Po, Brian Bliss, The Chairman and Handsome Frank |
| Other Interests: | Paragliding, biscuits, Tony & answering Po's stupid questions about space travel. |
 | Killian O'Kelly progressed from jumping off the rocks at Roughey to surfing the waves outside his front door on the Donegal/Leitrim border. Killian has surfed all over the world in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, South Africa, South America and Mongolia but has now returned home and settled down to his favourite view of the Peak from Turfnsurf Lodge and Surf School. Ultimately he hopes to travel to retire to the moon with Po and Tony. |
Ciaran (Knolly) Duffy
| Age: | 22 |
| Years Surfing: | 11 |
| Favourite Break: | Ards |
| Surfing Role Models: | My ould boy and McManus |
| Other Interests: | Flying, Obtaining a PhD in general knowledge, call of duty 4 and deli counters |
 | Ciaran, also known as Knowledge due to his propensity for sharing an interesting fact a day with you originates from Kildoney on the other side of Bundoran Bay. His dad Barry, a well known local water sports enthusiast left both his kids no choice when it came to learning at least one water sport. They both took surfing and thanks to him he now teaches our customers at the highest standard. Ciaran learned to surf between Rosnowlagh and Tullan. He has traveled to places like France, Spain, California, Australia, Mexico and Italy but now lives on the west end of Bundoran and can be seen surfing some of Europe's best waves, right on his door step!! Ps:- When you meet him, ask him why a radiator shouldn't be called a radiator. |
Owen Murphy
| Age: | 19 |
| Years Surfing: | 9 |
| Favourite Break: | Tullan Strand |
| Surfing Role Models: | Richie Fitz and Dad. |
| Other Interests: | Soccer in the back garden and my homework. |
 | Former Junior Irish Surf Champ Eoin joined the TurfnSurf team last summer. Owen lives a stone's throw away from Tullan Strand and is a constant feature ripping up the lefts of Bundoran no matter what the conditions are nor how much homework he has to do. |
Kealan McNulty
| Age: | 21 |
| Years Surfing: | 7 |
| Favourite Break: | Left TIT |
| Surfing Role Models: | Richy Gay Fitzs |
| Other Interests: | Playing with Boats, skate boarding, guitar playing, being from Bundoran |
 | I am from Bundoran and I sound like I talk through my nose |
Ivan Macken
| Age: | 25 |
| Years Surfing: | 4 |
| Favourite Break: | Strandhill Mellow |
| Surfing Role Models: | Mick Roddy & Sean Boylan |
| Other Interests: | Surfing & flying machines & the price of suckler calfs |
 | Ivan took a turn onto the N3 in his native county Meath and kept going until he ended up in Bundoran. Despite being a proficient surfer we have yet to knock the bogger, farmer out of him and he persists with walking like he's John Wayne wearing wellies. However, we still love him. In particular himself & Mary (wife of Killian & also from the Royal County) like to discuss the weird eccentricities of the natives. One of which is walking into everyones house without as much as a knock & then proceeding to the biscuit tin to eat all their provisions (this is basic Sham behaviour). |
Eoin (Lin Lin) Mac Manus
| Age: | 22 |
| Years Surfing: | 6 |
| Favourite Break: | Peak and inside left |
| Surfing Role Models: | Dame Reynolds and Tripod |
| Other Interests: | Surfing, Bundoran chicks and spear fishing |
 | Eoin is from Ballyshannon sham town and joins us as part of a government funded scheme to help Shams from Sham-town to see the world. When not surfing he is studying Environmental Protection in Sligo town. Eoin is a powerful surfer and great instructor. However, don't be fooled by the innocent exterior and those big brown eyes.....this man is a lady killer! |
Larry Mulligan
| Age: | 26 |
| Years Surfing: | 4 |
| Favourite Break: | Blackspot/Lislarry |
| Surfing Role Models: | Pierce Brosnan, Dorian Paskowitz and all the Heads(shams) |
| Other Interests: | Perfecting the art of making hot chocolate & doing his hair |
 | Larry hails from Mullingar in the middle of bogland Westmeath. A few years ago he realised that there is far better swell on the north-west coast than on the lakelands of his home county and arrived on the door step of TurfnSurf eager to learn more about this surfing lark! Larry is an educated type of fella and did have some reservations about throwing his lot in with us wild north-west types but thankfully, he now feels he's made the right decision. He no longer disturbs the lonesome fishermen on the waters of the midlands with his ridiculous 360 airs. Instead he now likes to drop in all over the local shams and show them how we do it, Mullingar style-rough like!
He dreams of some day being a Sham, not just any auld Sham, a Shamrider.
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Ryan Bloomberg
| Age: | 25 |
| Years Surfing: | 10 |
| Favourite Break: | Strandhill sham |
| Surfing Role Models: | Keanu Reaves, Patrick Swayze and all the Shamriders |
| Other Interests: | Basketball, Reading, Camping and going to the Salon twice a week. |
 | Ryan, sometimes operating under the alias "Goldbloom", recently escaped from America where he was living a semi-nomadic lifestyle selling Maple Syrup and Wooly Jumpers at fairs around the East Coast. Finally, arriving at the tourist mecca of Ballyshannon, Bloomers was close to the source. The following week saw Ryan surfing a remote and highly secretive spot know only to locals as "the peak" where he met one Gary Doherty in the water. Thus the shamriders came to know Goldbloom. |
Pierre Vandermeulen
| Age: | 24 |
| Years Surfing: | 1 |
| Favourite Break: | Lisadell and Left Tit |
| Surfing Role Models: | Paul (Cavan) Mac and Mary. His arch nemisis is Tony |
| Other Interests: | FACEBOOK / SURFING / IRISH CULTURE |
 | Born in Belgium but with an Irish Heart Pedro bob made the move to Bundoran on work experience in March 2009 and has not looked back since. Star of the hit Youtube series www.inbundoran.com and all floppy hair half frog Pierre now does surf instructing along with videos and photos |
Mary Lavelle
| Age: | 0 |
| Years Surfing: | 3 |
| Favourite Break: | Rossnowlagh |
| Surfing Role Models: | Killian and Tony |
 | Mary brings a bit of east coast sensibilities to the mix, hailing from Meath but home is now the west coast since marrying Killian. |
Paul Mac
| Age: | 0 |
| Years Surfing: | 1 |
| Favourite Break: | Lisadell |
| Surfing Role Models: | Pierre |
| Other Interests: | Surfing, 70s clothes and giving out about like an old man |
 | Paul Mac arrived in TurfnSurf as a paying customer a few years ago. Being from Cavan he soon turns that around so that we are paying him. How this happened is something the management at TurfnSurf are not entirely sure about.
Possible contender for the best man at reversing a trailer and definitely the most multi talented surf instructor in Ireland.
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