TV Review: Keep It a Secret rides the waves of Irish surfing history

"...what struck me were the voices of early Irish surfing - the polished accents on the early adopters in Tramore suggests that you needed a bit of money to catch a wave..."
TV Review: Keep It a Secret rides the waves of Irish surfing history

Surfer Martin Lloyd, a trailblazer in the sport in Ireland

So now we know what the upper-middle classes got up to in 1960s Ireland. Surfing.

Keep It A Secret (RTÉ One and RTÉ Player) pitches the story of surfing in Ireland as a crazy ride, with the inevitable spit as the pioneers of the sport fell out over whether they should promote it worldwide, or keep the waves around the coast to ourselves.

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