Bio

Some Info about Easkey and her other lives..

Live in the present. Launch yourself on every wave, find eternity in each moment...

- Thoreau

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Easkey has surfing in her blood. She comes from Ireland's first surfing family and grew up in Rossnowlagh surfing with her sister Becky-Finn & her Dad Barry Britton. Barry & his brothers were some of the first pioneers of Irish surfing and it all began when Easkey's Grandmother returned from California in the 60's with two malibu boards for her hotel. Fortunately her boys had other ideas & rescued the board & learned to surf!

Barry and Willie both like to charge big surf & Easkey is following in their footsteps. Her Mum and Dad taught her to surf when she was 4 years old and her life has revolved around surfing ever since.

Easkey lives up to her namesake wave, the famous west coast break which can be translated to 'fish' in Irish. She got her first taste for travel when she went to Tahiti and became the first Irish person to surf the infamous hell-wave Teahupoo aged just 16 and hasn't looked back since! Ireland's 5 x National Champion she is leading the charge of the next generation of Ireland's surfers taking on the International surf scene.

A few Achievements in other lives..

  • Graduated, 1st class BSc Hons, Environmental Science
  • PhD scholarship at University of Ulster in Marine Science
  • First woman to pioneer surfing in Iran
  • Staff writer for Tonnta (Irish Surf Magazine)
  • Artist for annual 'wet and wild' women's surf festivals
  • Founding member of Wellcoast.org
  • Marine conservation volunteer for Coral Cay Conservation, Fiji 2004
  • Charity and humanitarian work, including teaching and donating surf equipment – East Africa 2006 and Cuba 2010