{"id":487855,"date":"2026-06-07T17:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487855\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:51:18","slug":"four-dublin-swimming-spots-closed-over-poor-water-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/487855\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Dublin swimming spots closed over poor water quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four popular swimming spots in Dublin are closed to bathers until at least Thursday, due to poor water quality after heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council installed a prohibition notice at Seapoint beach yesterday following consultation with the HSE.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the council said this was after &#8220;updated sampling results&#8221; of the water.<\/p>\n<p>Three other locations with a prohibition notice are Blackrock Baths Shore, Corbawn Strand and the Forty Foot.<\/p>\n<p>The council said the ban on swimming at those four locations will remain in place until Thursday, pending further sampling.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a number of prior warning notices in place which advise people not to swim at five locations.<\/p>\n<p>They are Sandycove, D\u00fan Laoghaire Baths, Coliemore Harbour, Killiney beach and Whiterock beach.<\/p>\n<p>The council added that it will keep the situation under review and that further sampling will take place at high tide on Tuesday 9 June &#8211; the results of which will be expected on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four popular swimming spots in Dublin are closed to bathers until at least Thursday, due to poor water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-487855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}