When “Europe” and “big wave surfing” are used in the same sentence, Ireland isn’t typically the first location to come to mind. (Ahem, Nazaré, Portugal.) But the Portuguese Beast isn’t the only game ...

Conor Flanagan has made a life for himself as a surf photographer in the Atlantic Ocean's most inhospitable waters. Ireland is no joke.

“Keep It A Secret” recounts the inspiring true story of the dawn of Irish surfing and how the sport’s brave pioneers found peace in the surf during the most violent years of The Troubles conflict. In ...

Whenever Ireland draws surf attention on a global scale, it’s usually due to the country’s tight-knit crew sending it at some of the Emerald Isle’s biggest, most-terrifying waves. But this surf zone ...

From Nazare to Jaws, and Mavericks to Mullaghmore, as winter approaches in the Northern Hemisphere, the big wave surf community is fired up to see what the season brings. Reminder, be sure to tune ...

Devon, Cornwall, Wales and west Ireland on for days of waves. Wednesday morning will be the peak for the UK. Bit of wind, but it’s offshore, for the most part. It’s here. This evening saw the first ...

Ricky Martin told me to trust him as he shoved me onto a surfboard and told me I wasn’t going to drown. I can’t swim. I’m pushing 30 and I don’t even know how to float, something not helped by ...

Look but don’t touch. As kids, we’re berated by this unenviable axiom, scolded in grocery stores, candy shops, other people’s homes and, perhaps most essentially, the shiny glassware sections of ...