Richie Fitzgerald

Richie Fitzgerald is an Irish big-wave surfer based in Bundoran on Ireland's Atlantic coast. He first came to wider attention as a judge on the Channel 4 reality show Faking it, in the episode Web Surfer To Wave Surfer, which aired on 2 November 2002, and then featured in surfing documentaries including Joel Conroy's Eye of the Storm in 2002 and Step Into Liquid in 2003. In 2009 he co-led Joel Conroy's first feature documentary, Waveriders, with Gabe Davies, in which the pair tow surfed the biggest swell ridden off the Irish Atlantic coast. In 2014 he appeared alongside Ben Skinner in a Jagermeister advertisement titled Journey to Surf. He now runs a surf coaching academy and the Surf World shop in Bundoran with his Australian wife Briohny.