Ugh.
This morning, 6.30
Sandycove, County Dublin
Jared Huet writes;
Stay out of the water….
Swimming ban at Dublin beaches following Ringsend overflow (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
This morning.
Seapoint, County Dublin.
UPDATE:
flossieandthebeachcleaners tweetz:
Sandycove this morning…fancy a dip, even the jellyfish have changed colour 🤢💩@dlrcc @EPAIreland @CormacDevlin
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And stay off the sand, too!
Wasn’t planning to get into it. All year round there are invisible nasties.
On the plus side, ‘Dublin Bay prawns’ are farmed / caught nowhere near Dublin Bay so your cocktails and paella are safe.
oh God I had mussles yesterday
ye know what I mean
So… you may soon be adding to the problem?
Now that’s put me off MY breakfast
Charming
Where are they procured?
Irish Sea, Celtic Sea and Atlantic. The Dublin Bay term is associated with the harbour (Howth) where they are dropped. Yes, nasties still in the Irish Sea (NW prawn grounds). So we will look forward to the EPA, IW and BIM / Safe Food reports addressing the impacts on shell-fish. In 2025 probably.
And Limerick ham isn’t always from Limerick – and limerick writers come from everywhere.
And Donegal Catch is often from Chile.
Which is not in the EU.
until chentry
And the nationality of people from Northern Ireland is Irish
Interestingly, the Dublin Bay Prawn is the exact same species as the Norway Lobster and the French Langoustine. Just named differently depending on where it’s landed and eaten.
Thanks Hoop
That baits Banagher
IW. Create a sh company and guaranteed sh will come out.
Well that’s put me off my breakfast
what time do you call this
I call it ten o clock
Early breakfast, today, so?
:)
And only slightly alcoholic ;)
Mimosa?
please,
Mimosa: good for vitamin C and so part of any healthy breakfast :)
Essential part of your ‘five-a-day’.
I’ll have 5 so
You have to hand it to the Irish Water people for sanitising their corporate incompetence (which at this stage must be verging on criminality) with all the names they come up with for the pee and poo that THEY are flushing from THEIR plant into OUR waterways. The above isn’t pee or poo, it isn’t even “activated sludge”, it’s “excess storm water”.
I never noticed that. They must have a flow chart (flow charts are the thing these days, I hear).
In case of sewage spillage:
Did it rain?
Yes – Excess Storm Water
No – Activated Sludge
‘Activated sludge’ sounds like it should have it’s own evil lair and an obnoxiously fluffy white cat.
And playing regular gigs in the Voodoo Lounge.
Is that place still going? I lived local and they used to throw the best private parties for in town music people- if walls could talk.
Well, it certainly comes with its fair share of floaters and hangers on…
Why do I feel these new terms are a tissue of lies?
Obnoxiously fluffy brown cat. Or an obnoxiously fluffy white cat with brown skidoos all over it!
“Stormwater excess” the new fragrance from Calvin Klein.
Not to forget Yves St Laurent’s new one Mal Eau de Ros
‘Dublin Bay’
eau, de toilette!
The joy of the carefully placed comma :)
You’re on a roll today…
U, reign all over us Queen Hoop..
It’s your pee and poo Eoin
Meanwhile in Poo-ey Cove
Save Poo-lbeg.
Oh very good!
Maybe Poo-tin had a hand in this – activating his sludge to take down our democracy
You yell, “Barracuda,” everybody says, “huh, what?” You yell “Floating poo,” we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.”
Adds a grand stench in the evening for the James Joyce crowd.
Thing is, all of this was well known long before the metering project ever commenced. The polluter pays principle- remember that? A slogan used to blame the general public while the vast majority of water was lost on the network AND where sewage was being pumped into the sea.
‘The polluter pays principle’ is actually where the EU fines member states for not getting their act together- like Ireland.
So who is to blame for 40+ years of neglect and underfunding for water/waste?
I am certain this irritates Jerry Grant (MD-IW) as much as the rest of us because in the first speech I heard from him some years ago highlighted this problem but- he has his hands tied.
Where is the political vision? It must come top down- from government- with funding. It’s a disgrace, it cannot continue.
Enough of this toilet humour !