{"id":648501,"date":"2026-08-21T05:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/648501\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T05:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:08:12","slug":"do-not-swim-notice-issued-for-portmarnocks-velvet-strand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/648501\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Do not swim&#8217; notice issued for Portmarnock&#8217;s Velvet Strand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A DO NOT swim notice has been issued for a beach in Portmarnock, Co Dublin due to a \u201cpump station overflow\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is when\u00a0untreated wastewater or storm water is accidentally released into the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Fingal County Council said the likely cause of the overflow is heavy rainfall. The notice will be in place at the Velvet Strand for four days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The council said that resampling of the water quality is being arranged.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the beach remains open to the public, but beach users are asked to respect the notice.<\/p>\n<p>The public can check for water quality on monitored beaches on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaches.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency<\/a> website or by checking the notice board at the entrance to each beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A DO NOT swim notice has been issued for a beach in Portmarnock, Co Dublin due to a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[47790,9,10,263586,274199,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,46417,7,8,446,46786],"class_list":["post-648501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-beach","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-co-dublin","tag-do-not-swim","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-portmarnock","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-uisce-eireann","tag-velvet-strand"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117131772317121408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}