Francie Boylan of Ocean FM visits the INA AGM – 2nd November 2016

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Francie: Okay. I’m sitting outside the Lough Allen Hotel here in Drumshambo. It’s a lovely evening. And inside, the Irish Naturist Association are gathering for their AGM. And I’ve come along here to have a chat with them, but also they’ve booked the pool out this evening between 8 and 9 PM. And I’m gonna get naked with them. Yay. Or maybe not. Anyway, I’m gonna give it a go. I’m gonna find out a little bit more about it and why people do it. And I know this sounds ridiculously vain, but when I knew I was going to do this, I went away last week and got the chest waxed.
Selena: Now, I’ll just get you to lie down there and take your top off for me, please.
Francie:: Right. Selena, is this gonna hurt, please? It’s my first, I’ve never been waxed before.
Selena: No,
Francie:. That depends on what sort of pain threshold you have, whether you’re a man or a mouse. Oh, we’re fine. Soon find out. It’s right.
Francie:: Okay. That’s very warm.
Selena: It’s meant to be.
Francie:: Woah. Okay.
Selena: Doing well now
Francie:: if it was cold. No.
Selena: Oh. You’re worse than a woman. It’s the difference. Girls don’t shout like that.
Francie:: I don’t know why because it is very sore.
Selena: Women obviously just have the pain threshold.
Francie:: The warm wax is nice. It’s like the only nice part of it. The warm wax. Ouch. Okay. It’s about 40 minutes to swim time, and I’m in the toilet of the Lough Allen Hotel. I don’t think there’s no. There’s nobody here. You know the mad thing though is? Because people come in with wheelies, you know, suitcases and all that sort of stuff, and I’m looking at them and I’m going, I wonder are they now naturists or they’re just here for the weekend because the hotel isn’t blocked off completely for the naturist convention. So I’m looking at everybody going, yeah, you look like a naturist. I don’t know. Anyway, I better go. Okay. I’m standing here in the dressing room. Most of them have gone through with the last one or 2 have gone through now. I’m still here to be short, but there’s people here 70, 80, right down. I’d say 21, 22. Right. Sure. So if you’re ready. There you go. I’m standing here. We’ve been told you have wear a swim hat. Right? You can’t get into the pool with a swim hat, which is fair enough. I’m gonna put on the swim hat now. One second. Do you know what I look like? I look like a mixed up French flag, and I’ll tell you why. I’m white all the way down the middle. I have a big red flush face because I’m so bloody nervous, and I have a blue hat in me. So if you can imagine a human mixed up French flag, that’s what I am. Come here. I have to have a quick shower before I get into the pool. Do you know what turned out alright though? The wax that I got on my chest. Right. Here I’m going for a shower. So I’ve showered, and all I actually was walk around the corner here. I don’t know if we can do this. Right. You’re going with me right. I’m walking through around a series of corridors. Everybody’s here. This is weird. This is weird. I just need to get into the pool. Okay. I need to get into the pool. They probably think I’m saying my prayers because I keep looking up. I can’t look down. I’m getting in for cover right here. I’m in. I’m covered. How are you? How are you? How are you? How’s things? I don’t know where to look. How are you? Hello? Pardon me.
Kev: How are you doing? What’s your name?
Kev: My name is Kev.
Francie:: Kev, where are you from?
Kev: I’m from Bursheen in County Antrim.
Francie:: Antrim. Can you tell me how did you get into being a naturist?
Kev: Well, I’ve been a naturist since I’ve discovered my first nude beach in Romania 40 years ago, And that was a very liberating experience and something I’ve tried to continue all my life.
Francie:: I don’t mean to be crude or anything. Is there anything sexual in it at all? Or is there anything like and and I don’t mean to be, like, kinda juvenile either about it, but, like, you know, something could pop up or do something. You know?
Kev: Well, that tends not to happen. I mean, if it does, people just sit down or get it all or or do whatever, but that’s a very rare event in in reality. And you can see, you know, once you’ve been here naked for a while, you’re concentrating on what you’re doing. You’re not concentrating on the fact that you’re naked. Yeah. So it’s an easy enough thing to, to forget, surprisingly enough.
Francie:: I might talk to this lady, if that’s alright. Hello. What’s your name? Jane: I’m Jane.
Francie:: Jane, where are you from? Jane: Blackpool, England.
Francie:: And we are standing here on the steps you’re about to get in. Tell me, when did you become a naturist, or when did you discover it? Jane: 2003.
Francie:: What do you get out of it? This is my first time, and I’m just wondering. Jane: It’s just the the liberation of it. Freedom and, it’s about a leveling. We’re all the same, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from, who you are, what you do. We’re just all here enjoying being naturists.
Francie:: Oh, my sweet divine I’ve got out of the water, and I’m walking around, walking naked. There’s people doing their own thing. They’ve swim hats on them. They’re not passing a blind bit of heed. The only thing they’re looking at me is because I’m talking into a microphone, and the saunas are there, the steam room is there, and there’s a jacuzzi outside. I don’t know if I’m gonna bother going outside because it’s a bit cold. The jacuzzi is on mind. Oh, there’s people in the jacuzzi. Oh, I’ll go out to it. How do we get out this? Alright. Hello. What’s your name?
Randy: Randy. [indistinct]
Randy: Yeah. Well, that in America, it’s it’s not it’s not an issue, but that’s over here it is. Yeah.
Francie:: Does that I wonder do are many people Randy right here. I don’t think it is. It’s not that thing at all, is it?
Randy: No. No. It’s not common. In fact, when I introduce myself, you can just sort of see the thing going, did I hear that name correctly? And but then right after that, then they’re okay with it. It just takes them a second to realize, okay. That’s just the horses. Dave, I’m a mattress, and I live over in actually live in Northern Ireland. And then we knew this was going on, so we just come down here for the for the day or the weekend, basically. Francis: You and your partner?
Randy: My partner. Yeah.
Francie:: And do many people know you take part in this in your family, in extended family?
Randy: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. They’re they’re comfortable with it. And we’re used to it. We’re naked at home and just when we travel as much when we can, then we’re staying in a place, a house that we can use, and it’s sort of secluded garden. So we’ve been able to be out in the in the sun for the last couple weeks, so it’s worked out nice.
Francie:: I’ll let you get into the jacuzzi. And thanks very thanks very much for talking to us, Randy.

That was cool. Okay. Oh, the door is locked. Oh, I thought the door was locked. Of course, his name was Randy. I’ve come into the sauna, and Pat is here. How are you guys? Sorry. How’s things? Good. We’re about half an hour, 40 minutes here. I’m in the sauna, and people are just going about. Pat is as if there’s not the only reason they’re looking at me is because they see me talking into this thing, they’re going, what’s wrong with you?
Kev: I wonder what that thing is. And if you look at it, it’s very phallic looking.
Francie:: That’s that’s that’s the windshield. I know. Yeah.
Speaker: The only the only thing is, fancy, you see, the reason they’d be looking at you even more so is if you had a pair of tongs on you.
Kev: Yeah. That’s true, actually. If you’re
Speaker: standing out from the crowd, you’d be strange.
Francie:: Yeah. You know, you would be. Me or
Speaker: may not think the worst strange people, but we’re not No.
Francie:: I know. But I I genuinely don’t to know. But I I I won’t lie to you. When when I walked in first, I had the towel in front of me. Right? And I kept the towel and I kept the towel in front of me. Yeah. And then I said, well, I dropped this now, and then I said, right. I’ll go for cover in the water. And then when I got when for covering the water, then it was like, yeah. No bother.
Speaker : That was the problem. Yeah.
Francie:: What what was the problem? And and Speaker : I told you that before you
Speaker : I can give you an example. When we first went to swimming pool in Dublin with our children, one of them wouldn’t get in. He wants to wear his togs. He said, you can wear your togs or not wear them, whatever you want. He was 10 minutes in, and I saw the togs thrown at the side of the pool.
Francie:: That was that one.
Boylan : He was the odd kid out.
Francie:: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah. No. You said you don’t wanna be the odd kid out by any means?
Francie:: No. You don’t. Okay. Listen. The sweat is hopping off me. I’m going to leave. It was lovely to meet you. 1, 2, 3, 4. 5 there’s 5 of us here in a wee box in the sauna, and it’s fairly small, but you know what? Small, sir. The least of me worries is that I’m buck naked. It’s that I’m I’m
Speaker: If you were in Sweden, for example, it’s nearly against the law in some ways. In Sweden, if you go to a sauna, you must nearly be be nude.
Francie:: No. It’s great. Thanks very much. Cheers. Sorry. Alright. I’m just back out now again. Okay. I’m sitting by the edge of the pool. My legs are kinda half crossed with my hand over. You know? I’m looking out a in the mountain here. It’s only new. God. It’s amazing.

Anne Marie: My name is Anne Marie.
Francie:: Do you check out each other’s bodies, like male or female?
Anne Marie: No. No. No. I just I for me, I just accept a person the way they are.
Francie:: And I’m back up when I’m walking around. The shower is going there. Is it cold? Wow. It’s cold. I was supposed to shower when I came out of there. So well, that’s cold. And you know what? You don’t have any cold on parts of your body to be fair. Okay. So I am heading back into the dressing room, and I’ve done it. I’m standing here looking in the mirror, the human mixed up French flag, but it’s done. Couple of questions. Took off the hat. Would I do it again? Absolutely. Was it weird? First, the start. Yeah. Definitely. But you know what I’d love to try? I’d love to try it outside. I like keeping fit ish, but I like running in particular. So if we do go to a beach nearby in Sligo, Leitram, or Donegal, or wherever it is, and you see a mixed up human French flag running, that’s gonna be me. Yeah. I’m glad I came here today, and I’m gonna dry off now.

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