Well, the UCD Surf Society, also known as Surfsoc or Surf Club, like many surfing clubs, enjoys the sadomasochistic activity of jumping into the freezing, near-uninhabitable Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean across the South and West coasts of the country, all while allowing themselves to be thrashed six ways to Sunday by the powerful waves. This activity is not illegal, but this author would point out it is inadvisable. Nonetheless, many people seem to enjoy this.
At the time you were referring to, the UCD Surf Club decided to post about their trip, creating a feverish wave (see what I did there) of people to swell up to the O’Connor building (see did it again) in the hope of securing spots on their trip. This author being in a relationship with a surfer can tell you this is a rather pointless activity given the surprisingly wide availability of surfing in the Irish state as well as the decided lack of madness with which such trips are taken up in other surfing clubs up and down the country.
All that being said, the surf trip will of course be an enlightening experience, as when the surfing is inevitably cancelled by the objectively crap weather, we are sure you can engage in dangerous levels of alcoholic intoxication. Such activities have of course never been known to be problematic in proximity to areas of heavy wave activity.
One word of warning: despite the potential for comedic gold from the clubs Surf Society-branded condoms, this author would strongly advise wariness in riding such “surf boards” given that the type of company that makes club-branded condoms is hardly the most reliable of operations.