An intrepid group of male cold-water swimmers are poised to complete the marathon task of swimming in an icy Belfast river for 365 days in a row as a tribute to the father of one of their members who died from a rare form of brain cancer.
The Dunmurry Dippers will complete the challenge on December 3 after raising more than £1,000 in honour of Tom Gilgunn, who died of glioblastoma in May. Peter Gilgunn started the cold-water swims after his father was diagnosed with cancer in November 2021.
He decided to start fundraising for the little-known form of the disease and so far, the group has raised more than £1,000 for The Brain Tumour Charity doing their daily early morning swims.
