Beaches?

Loopoo

Any good beaches in Dublin?

TarfHead

Dollymount is the blue flag beach nearest to the City Centre. Dublin beaches, overall, didn't do well in the 2008 EPA Bathing water quality report.

Depends on what you mean by good, e.g. Dollymount wouldn't be my beach of choice, despite the blue flag.

cosmic

Sutton beach is lovely to go for walks on. With regards to swimming, it might not be the safest, lots of tidal plateaus and funny currents. If you're looking for somewhere nice to swim in the sea I like the forty foot in Dun Laoghaire or Seapoint.

Clare Bear

Malahide and Portmarnock beach is a nice walk.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Portmarnock beach is beautiful.

Bluetonic

You might get a better response in the NCD forum as all the best beaches are there

shrapnel222

if you've got a car, head out to brittas bay. In dublin itself, my personal preference would be sutton

TarfHead

shrapnel222 wrote: »

.. my personal preference would be sutton

Ssssh. Don't be telling people about it - a well-kept secret is part of it's appeal

tricky D

There's 5 in Sutton, 3 are up the cliff walk and they're best at high tide.

ronbyrne2005

TarfHead wrote: »

Ssssh. Don't be telling people about it - a well-kept secret is part of it's appeal

Hole in the wall?

TarfHead

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

Hole in the wall?

Fast current, with the flow of water rising to/falling from the estuary alongside Portmarnock GC. Also a suspicious pipe which may or may not still be used for sewage.

A few years ago I found buried broken glass each time I visited. Kids were crawlers at that stage, so that always coloured my view of it's appeal.

admiralofthefleet

Rhys Thousands Beekeeper wrote: »

Portmarnock beach is beautiful.

+1, i would say THE nicest

tricky D

If you do come out to Howth/Sutton/Portmarnock/Malahide for some swimming, please be careful. The Lifeboat has been out almost every day in the last week or two. Don't become the subject of another grim story.

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

Hole in the wall?

Wouldn't call the Hole in the Wall/Burrow beach secret.

The 'secret' beaches would be the tiny ones at the dinghy club, Red Rock, Jameson's Pool and the Nun's beach.

TarfHead wrote: »

Fast current, with the flow of water rising to/falling from the estuary alongside Portmarnock GC. Also a suspicious pipe which may or may not still be used for sewage.

A few years ago I found buried broken glass each time I visited. Kids were crawlers at that stage, so that always coloured my view of it's appeal.

Pretty sure all Howth's sewage is pumped to Ringsend these days. The Hole in the Wall/Claremont was left in a really dirty state recently and Fingal have tried to cut the cleaning of it.

TarfHead

tricky D wrote: »

Pretty sure all Howth's sewage is pumped to Ringsend these days. The Hole in the Wall/Claremont was left in a really dirty state recently and Fingal have tried to cut the cleaning of it.

I was told, recently, that a lot of Howth's sewage still goes out the pipe off the Nose. There is still work ongoing to conect it up to the pipe that goes out to Ringsend from the site opposite Saint Fintans HS. There is certainly still work in progress at that site.

The pipe in the Burrow Road beach may be decommissioned, but it's disconcerting all the same.

Gavin "shels"

Another +1 for Portmarnock.

Drummerboy2

Dont forget Donabate and Portrane

tricky D

TarfHead wrote: »

I was told, recently, that a lot of Howth's sewage still goes out the pipe off the Nose. There is still work ongoing to conect it up to the pipe that goes out to Ringsend from the site opposite Saint Fintans HS. There is certainly still work in progress at that site.

You're right. Hadn't seen any road works lately, but there's another year to go.