Space to play on the beach

Madam, – Some years ago Dublin City Council introduced a new machine for keeping the beaches clean

Madam, – Some years ago Dublin City Council introduced a new machine for keeping the beaches clean. It scooped up all the weed and algae that had accumulated on the beach at Sandymount, depositing it at the north end of the beach, beside Sean Moore Park, thereby reducing the size of the beach by about 30 feet.

The City Council or its agents are now in the process of repeating this exercise again, so soon there will be no space left at this end of the beach for sandcastle-building or paddling. Apart from the fluke tidal and wind conditions which occurred some years ago, this little space of beach is never under water and is much used by parents with small children.

The debris caused by the algae could either be buried in the sand or dumped in the many areas of waste ground that surround the beach area, after all this waste will in time decompose.

Please could something be done to stop the destruction of the dwindling number of natural amenities that exist in our city? – Yours, etc,

MUIREANN HOURIHANE,

Oswald Road,

Sandymount, Dublin 4.