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EVER TAKEN A dip at the Clontarf Baths?
The sea-water pool — originally the ‘Clontarf Baths and Assembly Rooms’ — was first built in 1864, before being reconstructed in 1886.
Until the mid-1940s, the main bathing area was divided into two pools (one for men, and one for women) — and the facility remained in use until the mid 1990s.
We don’t know much about these clips — apart from the information given in the opening captions.
Do you recognise anyone taking the plunge?
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I didn’t see any hate just bafflement and general mockery of her terrible performance. Most of what she was doing wasn’t even breakdancing and I can’t believe nobody in Australia is better than her.
@Ollie McGlinchey: Let’s be honest, if she was halfway decent nobody in the world would have heard of her. Now she’s famous and is milking it for all it’s worth. Fair play to her but stop the false indignation. Nobody’s buying it.
@Ollie McGlinchey: Cmere ollie the fact break dancing is an Olympic event is funny tho…
@Paul Gorry: HILARIOUS. Next up we’ll have a 16 Hand Reel, Maybe a jig, a Hurling Competition, even pool, without water. And soccer?
@Sean O’Callaghan: they have soccer lol
@Ollie McGlinchey: What a comment……. You can’t see all the messages that she does, and you definitely can’t see her DMs……. If she says there were hate messages well then I’d take her at her word!
@Ollie McGlinchey: take a look at the comments on her Instagram account. Thousands of hate comments on posts as far back as 2017
@another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec: Snowflake.
@Paul Gorry: I came across the men’s final between a yank and a Canadian and as Mary Lou would say ,Let me be clear them boys are athletes ,amazing stuff.
@Ollie McGlinchey: unfortunately in this day and age general mockery is considered hatred….
I hear what you’re saying only because I’m Gen X
@Richard Twohig: If she has been getting slagged off as far back as 2017 then why go to the Olympics and make a complete show of yourself and give them more fuel? The truth is she loves the attention.
@Alex: You’re using the term snowflake wrong, dzope!!!!
@Ollie McGlinchey: 100% Complete sensationalism for sympathy.
You can’t expect to perform like that on a world stage and not get negative comments. It’s complete hubris to think that the memes and jokes aren’t warranted.
Narracists always play the victim.
@Dere: Reminds me of Trump, lol
@Thesaltyurchin: Reminds me of a lot of politicians to be fair, I mean do I have to say the name Leo Varadker.
@Marcus Maher – Triskellion Films: No you don’t
@Thesaltyurchin: Yes but he is the best, the greatest, the smartest narcissist of all time. According to him anyway.
So much hate & vitriol directed at this lady it beggars belief.
YES, her performance WAS different, it WAS cringey, probably ill advised but she went for it, she ‘ stepped up’ & enjoyed herself – no need or reason for all the mockery & negativity. Sincerely hope she puts the whole fiasco in the rear view mirror & gets to laugh about it in the Months/ years ahead
@Buster Lawless: When people publicly embarrass themselves they will be made fun of. It’s been that way since the dawn of time and it will always be that way. I guess you could say fair play for getting there in the first place but don’t feign surprise that she is being mocked for it.
@Buster Lawless: #betterdaysarecoming
@Brian: just seen this now—— brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice 1!!!!!
@Buster Lawless: just SAW this.
@Buster Lawless: She is gonna be mocked for that. It was the Olympics after all and she came on jumped around like a kangaroo and ran around in a circle on the floor like Homer Simpson. What would you expect. It’s made her famous which was probably the goal all along.
@Buster Lawless: She didn’t do what was asked of her and that’s breakdance.
The absurd notion that break-dancing as an Olympic sport aside, this is the inevitable fruit of a global culture that asserts, “you either affirm me or hate me”. Any disagreement, disapproval, or questioning of someone or their behaviour is instantaneously categorised as hate. Sad, yet is is the new “normal”.
Take it on the chin….ffs. she was ridiculously bad. I mean, she was an Olympian…..let that sink in.
@Stephen Foster: Apparently, a self-appointed one.
@Gaelactico: at 36 years old well past her prime
She probably is a big Bruce Springsteen fan and grew up listening to Dancing in the Dark
Sher come to Ireland. Tell her claim refuge because of hatred, she will be housed and a claim be sorted within a week. She could be working by the end of the following week teaching modern dance with such credentials as a former Olympian.
Does everybody take everything a bit too serious these days? Good Grief, there is a lot of strange people out here (and on here). Glad I’m normal!
@If you’re: Says who?
Narcissistic behaviour.
Where the fluck is skippy the bush kangaroo these days? It would never have happened on his watch.
@Paul Gorry: He was off telling the park ranger that Bruce was stuck down the well…again!
@Sean Buckley: What’s that skip? Bruce is stuck down the well again! Bugger..
@Paul Gorry: What’s that skip, red jeep registration 20 R15 05? Two males medium height, one with blond hair?
@Bert Carolan: ahh Bert iam getting emotional now. Good days..
@Paul Gorry: strewth!! Someone Betta tell his Sheila!
Poor girl. She could use this to her advantage and make a shed load of money. People are d#&ks
@Michael o Dwyer: Are you in love with her or something? People laughed at her because she was a joke.
@Ollie McGlinchey: when I finished the LC I left the schoolyard shenanigans & pettiness behind, guess some folks carried it forward
@Buster Lawless: :-)
@Michael o Dwyer: did you see her performance??
It was brutal
@Buster Lawless: #juggernautofshite
@sean weir: Eddie the eagle was brutal in the winter Olympics but he used it to his advantage all be it for a short time in the 80s. Still he made a few bob out of it
@Ollie McGlinchey: clown
@Ollie McGlinchey: Maybe look in the mirror before making a statement like that
Other athletes who were famously notably terrible at their sport were famous because they kept trying with an undetectable spirit- like Eddy the Eagle.
They were not whinging about their detractors and saying poor me.
If she came out and said- well I tried, had fun , it didn’t work out but so what- people would have supported her
@Faejit Balloobas: undefeated spirit- not undetectable
@Faejit Balloobas: Eddie the Eagle was a brave man. Wonder how many armchair critics would be brave enough to do a ski jump?
Literally Any child break dancer I’ve seen on the street anywhere in the world or any video I’ve ever seen of one was way ahead of her and she was meant to be at an elite,best in the world level at the Olympics.She was farcical.Absolutely shambolic.The fact that she and whoever gave her the go-ahead somehow are surprised at the warranted mockery shows a ridiculous level of naivety,arrogance and ignorance.
I feel this is not a sport and therefore all the ridicule is been heaped upon this dancer and I mean dancer as it should have never been admitted into the Olympic arena as such, you cannot blame the participants for taking part
Oh no, a cheater and a loser is crying that everyone is making fun of her. Maybe her husband/coach can pull a few strings again? What a joke….
The crowd were that incensed they were gonna Chucka Bottle they were gonna Chucka Can…Chucka Can.
@Sean Buckley: What??
@Sean Buckley: Keep the day job would be my advice
I never seen her but if you call breakdancing a sport,your screwed from the start
@Gerard McMonagle: L.A. 2028, Olympic ballroom dancing with Tess Daly commentary you heard it here first.
My tone deaf response to her;
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She already is world famous and will not need for money in the future, so I echo what another comment made on this thread.
The people who are telling her she was amazing are the one’s doing he’s a disservice. Call it as it is, she’s an adult, she was poor , but great to watch.
@Michael Cummins: at 36 she’s a bit past it ,when you think the medals were won by a 25 year old a 17 year old and a 18 year old
She put on a brilliant show
@Sean Money: pure shite
@Sean Money: she did that. It just wasn’t intended to be a comedy show
@Faejit Balloobas: we all had a good laugh
Dancing is art, always going to be problems. Most people need very definite perimeters, subjectivity is not welcome (breakdancing being about style). Still, a LOT of ‘dance’ experts in the Journal comments section tho, never would have guessed. My advice would be, never to watch the Turner Prize, lol!
@Thesaltyurchin: snowflake
@Thesaltyurchin: Breakdancing has never been subjective. Only a clueless ignorant would think that.
Same with dance in general, it’s never subjective since all the moves you can do are actually named. Go tell that to ballet dancer that it is subjective. Your education is fairly poor on the subject I assume. Now go dance away.
@Alex: Naming moves doesn’t make it ‘objective’. If somebody scores it 9/10 will all judges score it the same? No. Some may score it 8.5, others 9.5. Subjective.
@Alex: Lmao, you okay hun?
Everyone loves jokes & memes until they appear in one.
She might be breakdancing all the way to the bank with the number of invites for paid interviews and public appearances that’s going to be offered
She was a complete embarrassment and should never have competed
Raygun made the 2024 Olympics her b.tch. Having said that, Jonah Takalua is a far better break dancer.
@Oh Mammy: as the Summer Heights High alumni once said “Aussies are shite breakdancers” episode 7
Hate?? I can’t see why, it was comedy gold….
Hate just oozing out of nearly all comments here.
Makes you wonder
She gives Guns a bad name
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