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PEOPLE ARE BEING advised not to swim in the sea at Malahide beach in north county Dublin after routine testing found unacceptable levels of bacteria in the water.
Fingal County Council released the temporary ‘do not swim’ notice today after the bacteria were found in bathing samples taken on Tuesday.
The cause is unknown and an investigation is underway. The notice will be in place for 72 hours.
The council noted that Malahide has a constant red flag and swimming is never advised at the beach.
A resample was taken today with results due on Saturday, when the notice will be reviewed.
The beach remains open but beach users are asked to respect the ‘Do Not Swim’ notice as it has been put in place to ensure that the health of bathers is not compromised.
All beaches that Fingal County Council has identified as bathing waters met the standard for “excellent” quality in results of testing on Tuesday.
These beaches – including Howth, Portmarnock, Skerries and Balbriggan – will be tested again on Tuesday 17 August.
People intending to swim at any beach in Ireland are advised to check the water quality in advance on the EPA website or by checking the notice board at the entrance to each beach.
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It’s sickening. Just to throw the thing in the bin costs €112m+. And Childline having to scale back services because of a €140k shortfall. Sickening.
Well done KPMG.
The loss of auditing fees from these banks when you were their auditors should be covered by this little windfall.
spot on John!
Amen John.
A hundred million to fatten up their cronies wallets with Irish taxpayer’s money.
They should be forensically investigated and jailed for their criminality.
KPMG “We audit the way you want us to!”
Where is that girl who’s daddy is high up in KPMG now?
What a pathetic stupid comment !!!
And here come the FG/FF/Lab brigade to tell us that the bank bailout has absolutely nothing to do with austerity.
Sure whats a few hundred billion between us and our good buddies in Europe eh lads.
It was all your fault shakka.
Have to love the line were it states the accelerated windup ONLY cost the state 109 million, This is money that could have funded sections were they are cutting the f**k out of services.
This is an obscene amount of money to pay to wind up this failed bank. Why wasn’t a fee agreed in advance and a proper quotation system used. This total cost should be recovered from the auditors of Anglo as they should not have signed off on their accounts saying they were fine.
Next..investigation into KPMG… 6 months later…Investigation into KPMG costs state 100 million… Lawyers, accountants and Bankers…. They have it sussed goodo they do..
Borders on lazy journalism to just regurgitate a government press release and give a figure of e100m as the cost. The _true_ cost is the difference between what the state paid for the loans and what they were sold for.
Good luck getting that information, there’s no way IBRC will give it out.
It merely shows how corrupt this so-called Republic has become. The Republic is dead, long live the Republic.
What a waste.
Couldn’t that money have been used to employ more politicians and pay to help them travel around the country?
How can we be sure these figures are correct? Perhaps there needs to be an audit!
The KPMG charges are astronominical!
Day light robbery!
Weren’t they AIBPs Auditors?
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