Do they do pool sessions too? If so, where?
They do during the winter anyway, in Cabra. Not sure about the summer, thy tend to mace all that training to the Liffey as it's far cheaper and the weather is perfect!
A different option for Dubs might be joining that wild water club(or whatever its called...) , I think Diarmuid had been working on getting a reduced membership rate if we could get enough people to join(this may all speculation and an odd dream that I once had so don't quote me!!!!)
reduced membership? More like his 'lets not pay until they threaten to kick us out' membership
Realistically pool sessions aren't looking feasible. There will be very few people in Dublin over the summer, even fewer who will be up for committing once a week to a pool session. We need to have a decent turn out each week to make the sessions worthwhile in the eyes of the pool
The weather should be nice (touch wood) so if people feel they need a flat water session for rolling, skills or freestyle that can be arranged outdoors, likewise with polo (realistically we won't be allowed to have a ball in the pool anyway).
We also have an issue with the fact that we need committee members present at all pool sessions. There is only two of us who are Dublin based. Neither of is are able to make that commitment as we will be working for the summer and can't guarantee that we'll be free each week. Likewise with us going away.
We also don't want to stretch the relationship we have with the pool management. While they may not charge us for sessions (which as far as I know cost ~€100 a session) it may affect the hours we get next year. Also if they go through the trouble of setting up for us and only few people turn up it looks very bad.
As I've said, for anyone who's looking for frequent training over the summer Wild water is the place to go! We'll also have Clifden trips, polo competitions, and for anyone who wants to the salmon leap race series.