Mullaghmore is not a wave for the faint of heart. It’s big. It’s heavy. It’s cold. Conditions there are often in the victory at sea category, but Mullaghmore surfers are from a different stock. Tim Bonython, a guy who spends the majority of his life bouncing from big wave to big wave with a camera in front of his face, captured it in December for an edit he calls Tonnta Leanúnacha.
“Tonnta Leanúnacha means ‘continuous waves’ in Gaelic and this is what you get more so than anywhere when it comes to this Irish slab called Mullaghmore,” Bonython writes. “It’s the Teahupo’o of Ireland. It’s big, it’s round, and it holds no prisoners. One mistake and you’re down for the count. Even the best out there paid a price on this day.”