#Surfing - An Irish wave enthusiast's 'surfing' video on the streets of Manchester has gone viral.
As the Belfast Telegraph reports, Manchester University student Sean-Caio Dos Santos Corr from Derrylaughan made the clip for the craic after spotting traffic splashing barrel waves onto the pavement on a flooded street.
Waiting for another downpour, Corr and his friend Christian Berger pounced with surfboard, camera and Bermuda shorts at the ready – and the results caught the interest of online viewers across Europe.
"We didn't even intend to take a camera with us we just grabbed it on the way out of the house for a laugh," says Corr.
"And now it's quite funny that people are actually interested in seeing eejits on the side of the road getting splashed in the face by a puddle."
In other surfing news, one of Cornwall's most prominent big-wave surfers has set up shop on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way to be in prime position for the giant walls of water the current stormy season is bound to throw up.
Tom Lowe tells the Western Morning News how chasing the biggest and best waves for a living often means sleeping on friends' floors – and jetting around the world at a moment's notice - while keeping in peak physical and mental condition
“It’s a complete package," he says. "Your heart has to be in it, your mind has to be in it and you have to be physically stable.”
