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DUE TO YESTERDAY’S heavy rainfall, Sandymount Strand and Velvet Strand in Portmarnock have been issued swim warnings.
More than seven millimetres of rainfall was recorded overnight at Dublin Airport, with some 24 millimetres recorded in Donegal.
Swimming has been banned at Sandymount Strand and Merrion Strand due to the risk of water quality deterioration in the area due to the heavy rainfall and possible sewer overflow.
The ban on swimming is likely to last at least 72 hours.
Fingal County Council has also issued an advisory warning for Velvet Strand, Portmarnock.
Due to the heavy rain last night, there’s a possibility of an increase in the levels of bacteria in the water as a result of an overflow from a nearby pumping station.
While the beach remains open, the council advises that there is an increase risk of illness if people take to the water, and have issued the following advice to bathers:
For more information on what beaches in Ireland have swim restrictions, visit Beaches.ie.
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Hong Kong’s great days are well gone- I would not even transfer flights there again. Nothing patriotic about his “election”
The lease was up, the British handed it back, there was some assurances given by Beijing at the time but this was just lip service, it’s part of China now, what did we really think was going to happen? This is how China rules, most of the mainlanders were questioning why HK was getting special treatment. That Beijing is not liked in Shanghai either.
@SPQH: *that said, Beijing is not liked by the average Shanghai person either
@SPQH: The Hong Kong man is very real there. Should we also give the CCP Taiwan, Vietnam, Tibet, Bhutan, all of the south China Sea islands, Macau, Mongolia, north India and more simply because of what the CCP claims is historically part of China?
@Paul Cunningham: you’re making an argument where there isn’t one to be made. It wasn’t a claim, it was on a lease. The UK handed back, no one is handing back any of these other places. What’s you’re argument about? That China has leased all these other places?
@Paul Cunningham: I’m not pro China btw, I’m just pointing out that I’m not surprised the way it’s unfolded, and I fear for ROC/Taiwan
Stripping out every value of democracy that HK was supposed to enjoy for another few decades but keeping all the financial institutions of course. it’s all about money, never the people.
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