Are you all insane?
The water is full of POO algal bloom.
Yes, human poo algal bloom.
This afternoon.
Dollymount Strand.
The Finnegan family, from left, April, Sabella, Ashley, Molly and Paris learn that a bathing ban has been placed on the beach following an overlow from local sewage treatment a preponderance of algal bloom in the locality.
That’ll learn them.
Meanwhile…
Hot out there today but not as bad as AD 1575 when: 'Intense heat prevailed…a loathsome disease arose from this heat…in Dublin, Naas, Ardee, Mullingar, & Athboy…(leaving) many a castle without guard, many a flock without shepherd & many a corpse without burial' #heatwave
— Irish Archaeology (@irarchaeology) June 27, 2019
Is this an ad for something?
It’s the obligatory ‘sunny day everyone jump for joy’ photo.
There’s one in the papers every time we get a bit of nice weather
Stick a flake in it
It may be sunny but there’s a breeze out that would skin ya – fair play to them – poo or no it wouldn’t be me.
That piece from 1575 echoes the Healy-Rae line that climate change is bunk.
“Sure in the 1500s we were roashted out of it, in the 1700s we were drownded out of it and in the 1800s we were froazen out of it. Tis nothing to do with mankind at all at all.”
But wouldn’t it be wonderful if they were right