77% of areas deemed suitable for bathing in Ireland were deemed of excellent quality.
Papers really do love to use the negatives
Did I hear a County Council is banning horses & dogs from its beach’s?
Coldest too
With county councils still discharging raw sewerage into rivers and off the coast of coastal towns is it any wonder?
It’s all those Dogs and Horses fault. Shiteing around the place thinking they own the joint. Would never be that bad if thee beaches were dog & horsie free.
Don’t we also have the highest cancer rates in Europe?
True. Coming out of the shower my skin starts itching like hell because the quality is just god awful, the amount of limescale is atrocious!
Its the dogggggs
Ah, the smell of human waste that permeates the air at Booterstown Dart station.
Blame the dogs*** and Irish Water
this is a weird one. considiring were an island, which is surrounded by beaches, we probably have the most dedicated bathing waters than other countries, but we dont have many inland bathing waters.
run off from farming and nutrification seems to be the cause. However, my local beach went from poor quality to excellent in the last 5 years and now has a blue flag. not so shabby
Aside from the headline, water quality in Ireland is infinitely better than it was 20 years ago.
Farming definitely has its issues but the main culprit here I imagine is county councils and Irish water.
We have I think 33 towns dumping raw sewage into water ways. It’s not for the lack of money or lack of construction companies but the lack of people willing to work for Irish water. Now before Amber Heard’s lawyer shouts hearsay I have heard from 6 companies alone that will not work for Irish water due to non payment. That’s a lot of companies considering I’m not even in that industry.
We need to build more treatment plants and stop being assholes to nature. The government talking outside both side of its mouth
Gov: you can’t burn peat you are destroying the planet
Gov: dumps millions of litres of untreated sewage into the water ways and seas.
So water is horrid, accommodation is worst in europe, weather is a disaster, and food is only good if you eat something that [isn’t irish](https://i.postimg.cc/xd54hPgV/FB-IMG-1654602675468.jpg)
Somehow I still dont mind being here for few more years. Very odd indeed.
The main thing destroying our bathing water is the temperature.
How does this happen when we have almost no beaches in urban areas
Over Covid, I started going to beaches, enjoying walks.
It wasn’t until I did that i realised how bad Bettystown beach is. The water isn’t just dirty, it’s got a horrific brown foam on the shoreline. When it was the only beach I visited, I thought that’s just how airish beaches kind of were, until I started visiting Skerries (for example) and realised the water on their beaches are crystal clear.
I think there’s a sewage pipe or something just off Bettystown beach, cause if you even drift down towards the mouth of the Boyne, or up towards Gormanston beach, it’s nowhere near as poisonous.
Well we did fight and win a glorious battle against the idea of paying water charges
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77% of areas deemed suitable for bathing in Ireland were deemed of excellent quality.
Papers really do love to use the negatives
Did I hear a County Council is banning horses & dogs from its beach’s?
Coldest too
With county councils still discharging raw sewerage into rivers and off the coast of coastal towns is it any wonder?
It’s all those Dogs and Horses fault. Shiteing around the place thinking they own the joint. Would never be that bad if thee beaches were dog & horsie free.
Is down to poor waste management?
Farming is also destroying our lakes and rivers
[https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/farming-pollution-sees-water-quality-in-ireland-deteriorate-1.3715715](https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/farming-pollution-sees-water-quality-in-ireland-deteriorate-1.3715715)
Don’t we also have the highest cancer rates in Europe?
True. Coming out of the shower my skin starts itching like hell because the quality is just god awful, the amount of limescale is atrocious!
Its the dogggggs
Ah, the smell of human waste that permeates the air at Booterstown Dart station.
Blame the dogs*** and Irish Water
this is a weird one. considiring were an island, which is surrounded by beaches, we probably have the most dedicated bathing waters than other countries, but we dont have many inland bathing waters.
run off from farming and nutrification seems to be the cause. However, my local beach went from poor quality to excellent in the last 5 years and now has a blue flag. not so shabby
Aside from the headline, water quality in Ireland is infinitely better than it was 20 years ago.
Farming definitely has its issues but the main culprit here I imagine is county councils and Irish water.
We have I think 33 towns dumping raw sewage into water ways. It’s not for the lack of money or lack of construction companies but the lack of people willing to work for Irish water. Now before Amber Heard’s lawyer shouts hearsay I have heard from 6 companies alone that will not work for Irish water due to non payment. That’s a lot of companies considering I’m not even in that industry.
We need to build more treatment plants and stop being assholes to nature. The government talking outside both side of its mouth
Gov: you can’t burn peat you are destroying the planet
Gov: dumps millions of litres of untreated sewage into the water ways and seas.
So water is horrid, accommodation is worst in europe, weather is a disaster, and food is only good if you eat something that [isn’t irish](https://i.postimg.cc/xd54hPgV/FB-IMG-1654602675468.jpg)
Somehow I still dont mind being here for few more years. Very odd indeed.
The main thing destroying our bathing water is the temperature.
How does this happen when we have almost no beaches in urban areas
Over Covid, I started going to beaches, enjoying walks.
It wasn’t until I did that i realised how bad Bettystown beach is. The water isn’t just dirty, it’s got a horrific brown foam on the shoreline. When it was the only beach I visited, I thought that’s just how airish beaches kind of were, until I started visiting Skerries (for example) and realised the water on their beaches are crystal clear.
I think there’s a sewage pipe or something just off Bettystown beach, cause if you even drift down towards the mouth of the Boyne, or up towards Gormanston beach, it’s nowhere near as poisonous.
Well we did fight and win a glorious battle against the idea of paying water charges