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WE’RE IN FOR a dry, warm bank holiday with temperatures to reach as high as 25 degrees across the weekend.
Today will be mostly dry and sunny with highest temperatures of 21 to 25 degrees. South and east coasts will be slightly cooler with moderate to fresh south-east breezes.
A clear night is in store, with the possibility of temperatures staying in low double figures wherever you are.
While there’ll be a bit of cloud in the west tomorrow morning, Saturday is set to be another dry, fine day with highest afternoon temperatures of 20 to 25 degrees. Again, southern and eastern coasts will be a bit cooler than more inland areas.
That pattern will carry on into Sunday, with highest temperatures of 24 degrees this time.
The odd light shower may creep back back in Monday afternoon but the bank holiday will be generally dry and sunny.
Temperatures will rise slightly again to between 22 and 25 degrees.
Looking further ahead, it looks like next week will be slightly cooler with highest temperatures in the mid-teens before becoming more unsettled.
It has to be those brown trouts floating about.
In this day and age how is ecoli ( human sewerage? ) getting into the bay in sufficient volumes to impact these beaches?
Any ideas?
Is raw sewerage getting into the rivers or is it the ringsend plant?
faecal hand of faith I’d say.
I worked on a trawler out of Howth in the past.After witnessing the muck , filth and human waste we hawled up in our nets , I wouldn’t stick my little toe in any waters off Dublin. I apply the same rules to eating fish and shellfish from the same waters.
Did a microbiology project many moons ago testing for pathogens in the waters around Sandymount Strand. Suffice to say 20 years later I still wouldn’t even paddle in thyself waters. The Irish Sea is filthy which is highly regrettable.
‘Those’ rather
Fitz I grow up not 5 mins from the strand and never did we or anyone I know swim in it .You walked on it that was about it .
“Dublin city council have banned swimming from merrion strand” Is that so difficult rather than these stupid click bait headlines!
The outfall from Ringsend plant goes out 3km so imagine with dilution the amount of raw sewage that must go out for Ecoli to arrive back on shore. We will not be told but obviously the Ringsend plant is not functioning as it should.
The same people giving out , would also give out about sewerage treatment plants being built near them . Or paying for taxes to help upgrade existing plants .
They will bring in a White tax now.
Shite……
Folks this is not on. Please serioous answers , ideas. I will act on them.
1 ringsend plant
2 liffey
3 other rivers dodder, tolka?
Something needs to be done…any ideas?
it’s all the people bring there dogs for walks and not having any consideration for anyone by not cleaning up after the pets if your not willing to clean after there pets don’t have a pet
Hmmm no it’s not. The occasional dog crap left on the sand is not responsible for the high numbers of E. Coli and staph coliforms in the water. That’s our crap that’s causing that. Inconsiderate it may be it’s not the cause, you might look to complain also to whomever owns those washed up sanitary towels I see whilst walking my dogs. (Poo bags at hand at all times naturally)
Salthill beaches in Galway have been closed as well.
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