Group to consider year-round water tests to protect sea swimmers Sea water currently tested during summer bathing season June-September
Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 01:00
Olivia Kelly Dublin Editor Listen now 12:43
Swimmers at Seapoint, Co Dublin: Darragh O’Brien says he is ‘very aware of the increased numbers of beach users outside of the bathing season, particularly in Dublin Bay’. Photograph: Laura Hutton
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Protection for all-year-round sea swimmers from sewage-borne bacteria such as e.coli and enterococci is under consideration by the national Bathing Water Expert Group.