Easkey Britton

Easkey Britton is an Irish surfer from Rossnowlagh in County Donegal. In 2010 she won her fifth consecutive Irish National Surfing Championship title at the wave in County Sligo that shares her first name, and in 2009 she became British Pro-Tour champion. In 2007 she became the first female surfer to ride the big wave Aill na Searrach off the Cliffs of Moher, a fifteen foot wave shown in the Irish documentary Waveriders. She was the first Irish woman nominated for the Billabong XXL Awards, now the WSL Big Wave Awards, for tow surfing at Mullaghmore in February 2011. Her younger sister Becky-Finn Britton is a longboarder, and Easkey has also published research on health and well-being in the sea, including papers on blue space interventions and on women in Northern Ireland fishing households.