Northern Ireland is to host a leg of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series for the first time this July.

The breathtaking global event heads to Ballycastle on the North Antrim Coast on July 19th and 20th.

The famous Serpent’s Lair in Inis Mór was the venue when the series visited in 2017. Two years later, Dublin hosted the event for the first time with a record breaking attendance in Dún Laoghaire. Most recently, the series headed back West to the cliffs of Downpatrick Head on its last stop in Ireland in 2021.

The beautiful Causeway Coast will be the latest new backdrop as the world’s best cliff divers battle it out on the fourth stop of the series.

The event is free to the public and will be broadcast around the world.

Nestled within the Glens of Antrim, an area of outstanding natural beauty, the choppy Atlantic waters of Ballycastle will prove both a danger and a delight for those competing.

A stone’s throw from the legendary Giant’s Causeway, this stop comes at the mid-season point of the series and divers will be expected to contend with challenging conditions that will push them to their absolute limit.

Tens of thousands of people will be expected in Ballycastle to witness a spectacle like no other, with the competition getting underway at 4pm on both days.

A roster of 24 male and female divers will have to face down fearsome winds, before diving and twisting through the air from heights of up to 27 meters, plunging into the cold Atlantic at over 85 kmph.

The full calendar of the 2024 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series is below:

Athens, GREECE – May 26th
Boston, USA – June 8th
Polignano a Mare, ITALY – June 30th
Ballycastle, NORTHERN IRELAND – July 19th & 20th
Oslo, NORWAY – August 10th
CANADA – August 25th
Antalya, TURKEY – September 29th
Sydney, AUSTRALIA – November 10th

 

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