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THE HAPPY PEAR twins have apologised and removed a photo from social media of their morning swim today after a raft of criticism was levelled at the chefs.
Dave and Steve Flynn posted a photo of their swim in Greystones on their Instagram account stating:
“Happy Monday. The calm before the storm this morning where there was blue sky and the sea was like a pool. Inspite of weather warning it was one of the calmest mornings ina while so there was no risk in having a swim.”
A code red weather alert was issued for the entire country last night ahead of the arrival of Storm Ophelia. Authorities have warned that under no circumstances should people visit coastal areas, such as beaches and promenades.
Following the image of them emerging from the sea this morning, people were quick to comment that their actions were “disappointing” and “set a bad example”.
Some critics told the chefs their post was disrespectful to those working in the coastguard and sea rescue.
The Flynn brothers have since apologised, and in a statement to TheJournal.ie said they mean no offense.
“We’re sorry if we offended anyone with our swim this morning. We swim in the sea at The Cove in Greystones almost every day and in the early hours this morning the sky was blue, the sea was really calm – there was no wind or storm brewing in Greystones at this early hour – so we got in for our daily brief swim.
“We have the greatest respect for the emergency services, our experienced fellow swimmers, and our families, and none of us would have got into the water if there was a risk at this time and if it wasn’t so calm.
“We fully appreciate that it’s a very different picture now so please stay safe, keep away from the water, and mind yourselves.”
Red alert
The authorities have warned people that this could be the worst storm to hit Ireland in 50 years and have urged people take it seriously, and follow all safety advice, such as avoiding any unnecessary journeys and staying indoors.
Speaking on the the Sean O’Rourke programme on RTÉ Radio One, Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney warned against what he dubbed the thrill of “hurricane tourism”, adding that people should avoid making “stupid decisions”.
Two kite-surfers were rescued in Carlingford this morning, while RTÉ’s Teresa Mannion, famed for warning people to stay out of the sea, reports that officials from Galway Council have been extremely critical of a number of people out swimming in the bay.
Carlingford / Twitter2 kite surfers safely escorted to shore with @GreenoreCG, @ClogherheadRNLI, Rescue116 and local Garda present@TOTTDundalk @rtenews pic.twitter.com/fss1F91cVx
— Carlingford Lough (@CarlingfordIRE) October 16, 2017
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People who swim/walk piers etc in weather like this intentionally put our front line staff in danger.
They should be prosecuted if front line staff are required to assist them.
@moneymaid: you’re a gobsh**e
@Mick Mulligan:
Why? Because I give a s*it about people who get up out of bed everyday to look after other people?
Go blow it out your a*se Mick.
Mick we saw what happeed with Rescue 116 and that was in weather 10% as bad as this, we lost an entire Coast Guard team due to an error with the GPWS
They’re not just walking uniforms they’re people with kids and husbands and wives and sisters and brothers that care about them and they put their lives on the line for not very attractive pay same as the Guards and medics and fire and CD they should be risking their lives only when necessary not to save people from their own recklessness. We’ve never seen a storm like this so people are already inclined to underestimate it, anything tha encourages that is counterproductive, they made the right decision taking the pics down.
@Ryan Carroll: Jaysus your a drama queen. The only thing they’ve put in danger is your delicate smugness.
@Mick Mulligan: I’m not sure moneymaid is the gobsh**e. They make a very valid point and show respect and empathy for our emergency services and their families. You on the other hand….
@Paul Mc Nulty: I think he had a very valid point. Some people being ridiculously and needlessly careless, either in search of fun like the two Kite surfing saps in Louth, or in the case of the Happy Pear twins, perpetual self promotion. The emergency services already do a hard enough job without these potential Darwin Award nominees.
@Mick Mulligan: what a ridiculous response Mick.
Get a life.
@Mick Mulligan: no you are.if you were in trouble and i was a rescue person id leave you there.tool.
@Sinead: thanks
@moneymaid: They swim EARLY in the morning every day. They always tweet it. They did not ask for this to be in the media. The storm was a long way off. There was no danger to themselves or anybody else. People are getting very hysterical and nasty.
@Stephen Small: the happy pair of pr1cks
@Little Diddy No: “They did not ask for this to be in the media”? What planet are you on? Why else put it up on Twitter if they didn’t want anybody to know. Just a pair of attention seeking prats as indeed are you and all the other idiots on this thread who are using terms like “Nanny state” and “snowflakes” to try and show righteous indignation for infringing on your rights to make your own minds up. You are just trying to be controversial for the sake of it which is as bad, if not worse, form of attention seeing. Grow the fu(k up.
Hypersensitivity again – no problem this morning in Greystones…calm as fook! Nowadays one can’t do fook all but everyone is up in arms…RELAX to fook!
@Mick Mulligan: good lad
@moneymaid: life isn’t black and white. Were you up in Greystones? Have you the slightest clue? People like you need a fine big dose of cop the hell on. A dip in calm waters hours before the storm is a lot different to kite surfers heading way out to sea for hours
@John Owens: I never said I had an issue with these individuals in particular. What I did say was PEOPLE who require the assistance of the front line service for reasons that are completely avoidable should be prosecuted.
@Little Diddy No: Again. I never said I had an issue with these individuals in particular. What I did say was people who require the assistance of the front line service for reasons that are completely avoidable should be prosecuted.
@Stephen Small: Vast amount of publicity even after taking photo down. Job done.
@moneymaid: and forced to volunteer for 12 months to channel their need for adrenaline to good use
Not so perfect now
@kevinhunt101: hes hot in any weather :)
@Blarneykite: Playing down weather warnings in a hurricane / TS is irresponsible.
When people (who, trust me, won’t consider that it was earlier before the worst hit) get caught in rip tides or get their head bashed onto rocks or their boat capsizes because “it’s grand in spite of the weather warning”, it will be that very nanny state that they’ll be screaming for to rescue them.
and when their rescuers go out those of us who count them as close friends or family will be worrying about them getting killed to save people so stupid in a just world they’d not be allowed to reproduce.
A lot of people make impulsive decisions with their emotions not their logic, go look at conspiracy theory videos online you’ll see people so sure about xyz theory without taking even the most obvious contextual detail into account “there was a missile that hit the pentagon not the plane”, not considering say why would they risk thousands of people seeing a cruze missile? They don’t think context, a lot of people won’t muse “hmmm that was taken before the storm hit it’s probably too dangerous now” they’ll just think “its never been bad before”, then you have the added issue that nobody ever thinks the freak accident will happen to them.
@Ryan Carroll: so you’re saying Hurricane Ophelia has something to do with 9/11?
@Ryan Carroll: It was very early in the morning when they swam. There was no danger. People are getting hysterical and nasty.
@Blarneykite: Not when it endangers other people
For flock sake, leave the lads alone. Some snowflakes offended by then having a swim and making them feel like they have to apologize?
@Carnac: they’re a pear of tossers in fairness
*pair
@Dan Broderick: ah Dan, I’ll leave that one with you for a few minutes.
@Laura Walsh: facepalm for Dan
@Laura Walsh: lol poor dan
@Carnac: I’m right there with you. Hey everyone. It was calm…they weren’t endangering themselves or anyone else. They weren’t disrespecting the rescue services or anyone else because it was BEFORE the storm. During the storm would have been a different matter. So get over yourselves and NO, I will not be wearing my cycling helmet going to bed, just so you can feel better.
@Shea Fitzgerald: I get your point Shea, but there are a lot of really dim people out there, and posting it might give people the impression the storm wasn’t as bad as people thought, people might not pay attention to the posting time.
On my way to job2 this morning I saw people in blackrock swimming and others taking selfies right on the edge of the water. There were people at the DART station looking at what appeared then to be not very rough waves and saying “it must have blown over then”, because they looked up and saw a blue sky and sun peaking through, what they din’t notice was that there was a circle of 360degrees of dark clouds it was just a small break. You are giving peoples intelligence and common sense far too much credit a lot of people don’t ask themselves “wonder when / where that was taken” obvious as it might be to some of us. They did right pulling them.
@Ryan Carroll: The picture was accompanied by a fairly detailed piece of text explaining that it was the morning, there was no storm…yet, it was calm and there was no danger and it didn’t seem to bother the 4 other people who were still in the water. I really wish people would cop on to themselves and leave these two guys alone.
@Shea Fitzgerald: Again…you’re thinking logically
Stop doing that it’s not what people do in situations like this, they don’t consider the context. If you’ve ever been in a job where you’ve had to rescue people you’d be really shocked how people make their decisions. The human brain does not work the same way in every situation, I’ve had to physically drag people out of buildings that were on fire because they didn’t think it was bad enough to warrant leaving their laptop/shopping etc
You’re also not considering that things can look calm but actually be dangerous, if you look out your window in most of Dublin now it’s just a bit windy does not look much worse than a bad winter day, but it’s enough to blow trees down with enough force to crush and kill someone, you can’t see currents in the water with your eyes. “in spite of weather warning it was calm”, if you look at that, and your’e inexperienced, you could look at water that does not seem too bad and think it’s ‘storm sill hasn’t hit’ then get ripped away by currents.
It’s not their fault if someone goes out, but they were right to try to avoid encouraging it.
@Dan Broderick: think you may have missed the joke there Dan
@Laura Walsh: yes they are they’re plonks
@Ryan Carroll: Will you please quit telling me what I can and can’t do. All this thinking on behalf of others and not just by you, because they can’t think for themselves. That’s the seedling of apartheid right there and it’s not on.
@Ryan Carroll: Absolutely disgraceful bashing of two people who went for a very early morning swim, as they do every morning, long before any kind of danger whatsoever. Stop it.
@Little Diddy No: you’re the first person to mention that the two brothers along with other friends do this most mornings at about 5/6am. Ive seen their instagram posts some days and it’s been a heck of a lot rougher than that!
They were plonkers well before this.
Watching sky news, muppets swimming in salthill. Crazy stuff altogether!!
You’re all just jealous that you don’t have the guts to go out swimming today. The real heroes are out in the water in Salthill giving the middle finger to Ophelia. They’re not going to be intimidated by a little wind unlike the rest of you pansies cowering in your homes. I’m off to climb Carrigtwohill barefoot for the evening
@Tweety McTweeter:
Also giving a few fingers to brave, hard working emergency services, don’t you agree, if they get into difficulties on a bad-weather day when asked not to take risks!
US system should be implemented in Ireland, in such circumstances, where “you’re on you’re own notices issue” if thrill seekers insist on being jack asses.
After all, just why should emergency services personnel be put in peril by someone’s stupidity?
@Tweety McTweeter:
Climb the main street in Carrigtwohill is it?
@Tweety McTweeter: “giving the middle finger to Ophelia” gosh, I’d say she feels really silly now. Idiot troll.
That pear are the Jedward of the culinary world
@Pat Smyth: and like jedward similarly irritating
They were down swimming in the early morning hours before there was any sign of a storm. Much ado over nothing.
Surprised one of them wasn’t doing a handstand there too
Saw them getting out of the water this morning, sea was exceptionally calm at the time, I was running around Greystones and there were lots of others walking, cycling and in the water plus kids on scooters, no issues or dangers whatsoever, hours before Ophelia was due to hit land.
Clowns
I have no problem with people doing as they wish as long as they don’t expect to be rescued when they get into trouble.
Dopes
Tossers
insufferable attention seekers, anything to promote themselves and their business interests.
Pear of pri**s
Pair of absolute toss pots
Pair of ejits!
Some people need to be temporarily sectioned for their own safety.
@Sam Cairns: like half TJ permanent commenters. It’s like they honed their ‘skills’ at being perpetually enraged and easily triggered on Twitter and felt obliged to dose us with their cancerous ravings on every article. This place used to have a half decent comments section a few years back but now it’s just the same 5 or 6 with their multiple accounts on every article, the middle ground is a no go, it’s either join their far left or far right brigade or they group up and pick your bones clean.
@Sam Cairns: It’s hard to know how to respond to that because it’s so wrong on several levels.
By all accounts arrogant in school, and seems little has changed.
@Ultan Coyle:
Jealous????
So selfish. So what if the water was calm? ” Before the storm ” is no excuse either. The RED ALERT was issued yesterday for the entire country and they should have abided by the nationwide warning.
@John O’Neill: and if the red alert was issued 3 days earlier before the storm would you be saying the same thing if they went for a swim yesterday? They were long gone off the water far from danger before any bad weather hit, they even mentioned clear sky’s, sun and exceptionally calm waters. Why would they not go for their regular morning swim!?! Honestly every person ‘having a go’ at these two needs to have a good look at themselves and cop on. They swam BEFORE any bad weather as they do daily, ie likely very good swimmers and well aware of conditions. The two kitesurfers are a different story however.
@Derek: it is pointless trying to make sense here. People have made their minds up that even though the lads were swimming in ‘exceptionally clam’ waters, they were tossers anyway. It seems to be more to do with personality than anything else. Never miss a good opportunity to let facts get in the way of a good moan.
@Derek: the Red Alert was issued yesterday for the whole country advising people to stay indoors and to away from the coasts, etc. They chose to ignore it and publicise the fact that they ignored it. I saw calm weather outside my house too but I decided to heed the expert advice. So did the vast majority of responsible citizens.
Dozy pear.
Well before the storm. No problem at all. Leave them alone ffs
I went for a run at 9.30 in the morning in Dublin 22. 4 hrs before the hurricane was due to hit Dublin.
I would not like to apologize for this reckless act.
Those who gave out about the twins the most are just simply jealous of their success. It’s clear.
@Shem Romanowski: the amount of hate expressed here about these two guys is incredible. The vitriol knows no bounds. They are two very successful business men who go swimming every day. They went today BEFORE the storm. It seems that some people like to take any opportunity to put successful people down. Is it not possible to see beyond personality and applaud success in this country?
@Deborah Blacoe: You’re talking rubbish. Such a dangerous thing to do especially today
@Deirdre D’Arcy Murphy: No, I don’t talk rubbish. But I read a lot of it here. If you can understand my comment above, it was mainly directed at the vitriol being fired at these two guys, just for being themselves. Nothing to do with the morning swim today.
@Shem Romanowski: success they were born into money
Two total muppets
Recommending a dip in the sea?? – Thats exactly what all the emergency services have been warning against. Did you miss the four days of weather warnings?
@Madison Underwood: I don’t know or care for them personally but they swim daily and just like yesterday, this mornings early weather conditions were pleasant in Dublin well before the storm arrived. They have no reason to apologise to the internet evangelical anger trolls and gremlins. It’s just another day of attacking someone over nothing for them, and of course the same lot here won’t miss an opportunity to hurl names and get outraged also. Completely different matter if they were out publicing themselves swim once the stomach landed.
Lugs
Pear of tossers
Pear of plonkers
Love the publicity them two, probably did it just for that knowing too well that there would be more publicity when they take down the posts and the fake apology. It was a perfectly fine morning for a swim if that’s your thing, you don’t need to post every little thing you do. Will they have posts later for “cooking dinner now with the window open in a hurricane”.
@Eddie O’Neill: whilst doing a handstand yes Eddie
@Eddie O’Neill: They are nice guys. They always post about their swims. Lots of people post all kinds of things on Twitter. It’s not a crime. They swim in the very early morning. They were in the sea a long time before there was any danger whatsoever. Why the hatred? What have they ever done to anybody?
What a misrepresentation. That wasn’t an apology, that was a clarification. A very reasonable and well written one. People have lost their minds over this storm.
If they want to go swimming, diving, surfing or go out on jet skis BEFORE a storm, all well and grand, if eejits want to follow their example DURING a storm….well….they are eejits after all.
A pair of publicity starved A holes
They were cooking up a storm
More annoying than Jedward. Absolute gabdaws
Two eejits!!!
The O.B.E BRIGADE are out in force again
(Offended By Everything)
My Jaysis this is exactly what’s wrong with today’s world, any f*****g A******e who was offended by this would want to get a life and stay out of other people’s.
Unbelievable to read all the condemnation of people taking a swim! All because a bit of wind was forecast!
There was a weather warnin in place .and we were told not to go outside !!but those two go Swimin .those two will do anything for publicity ,
Who?
I will be boycotting the happy pear as they promote stupidity
So not funny. Great example to other stupid people and not admirable in this situation we are in right now in Ireland.
Two absolute pretentious idiots. No respect for emergency services if anythings to happen. All about their massive egos.
Apes have more brains
Idiots! Can’t stand those two!
..interesting that they posted their swim this morning as opposed to other mornings!..idiots..cheap advertising stunt.
@Celia Murphy: They always post about their swims. They swim very early in the morning. They swam long before even the beginning of the storm was due, when it was safe to do so. I walked by the sea this morning too – it was just slightly windy, well before the storm hit – should I be arrested?
@Little Diddy No: present yourself in to your nearest Gardai station at once, regardless of current weather conditions and prepare your backside for a roasting from the frothing internet trolls. You monster.
@Celia Murphy: they post their swim every morning… I know… I see it
Did they do it just to say they swam during hurricane, if so pathetic. If swim everyday would know better
going for a swim on the morning that you where told not to make any unnecessary trips, this could of been avoided but you still wanted a selphy, pure saps and can’t take any sort of direction obviously.
Well done lads, your famous
I really don’t understand people absolute idiots.
@Audrey: I concur
Thicks
The Happy Pr*cks
They were right to have a swim calm as fcuk this morning so why not ya thick’s
This is ridiculous. There was no wind in greystones this morning. Where does this pc crap, outrage at everything stop
Arse holes going for a swim on the morning that you where told not to make any unnecessary trips, this could of been avoided but you still wanted a selphy, pure ticks and can’t take any sort of direction obviously
For goodness sakes it was calm and the red alert for the area wasn’t until later in the day .
There was no risk as it was BEFORE the storm .
People need to get a grip and get over themselves
Best response to these two jumping up and down clowns is to stop buying Happy Pear products in supermarkets or visiting their business in Greystones. Then they can swim all day and night in all weathers and if they get into trouble they can let the tide do what likes with them.
Ahhh the Internet forces someone to remove a post yet again
There up and at it when you are all in bed , made themselves millions having fun and giving fun to others. They are happy people.
Calm waters perfect conditions others in swimming too. , some idiot found ink sticks to paper and complained huh
F the begrudgers, get on with it the pair of you. Enjoy
Who da f#ck is that guy!
The new Stokes twins
They must be ‘dubs’..
What’s kind of people are walking our streets ?
How do half of you get dressed in the morning set aside go for a swim
Just like me
Whoze the sad sacks that give a rats
For goodness sakes it was calm and the red alert for the area wasn’t until later in the day .
There was no risk as it was BEFORE the storm .
People need to get a grip and get over themselves
For goodness sakes it was calm and the red alert for the area wasn’t until later in the day .
There was no risk as it was BEFORE the storm .
People need to get a grip and get over themselves
Who gives a flying fcuk whether they went swimming scubadiving parachuting whatever there was NO storm when they did what they normally do every other day so why the fcuk not
Happy pear w@nk@rs. Absolute Dick heads
Don’t see what all the fuss is about if they Got into trouble they could just cling to the raft of criticism
What’s kind of people are walking our streets ?
How do half of you get dressed in the morning set aside go for a swim
Just like me
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