Water Heritage Day in Greenore

Cooley Community Alert and its Peninsula Marine group are partnering with An Taisce and Clean Coasts to mark World Heritage Week and in particular Water Heritage Day on August 20th in Greenore beside the coastguard slipway.

The Irish Coastguard based in Greenore and, in particular, long service volunteer Peter Larkin will be sharing stories on his time with them alongside others discussing water safety, bio diversity and the amazing links of Greenore to the world famous pirate radio ships like Radio Caroline.

Engaging interactive activities will cover topics like tides, marine biodiversity, water quality, marine litter, and people will be encouraged to participate in a short beach clean.

You may be familiar with beach cleans, but why is the litter there, who dropped it? Why has it washed into that beach you know so well and love to walk on? What effect does it have – on us and on the local ecosystem?

For a special family-friendly session, Clean Coasts officer Aidan Gray, will offer a guide through several topics like tides, marine litter identification, pollution and biodiversity.

An Taisce has some fun activities planned for all ages and beach cleaning equipment will be available to help tidy and keep this area at its amazing standards.

Local GAA club Cooley Kickhams will be attending with its members and people across the area are encouraged to come along.

The agenda is:

9-9.30am – Short beach clean by divers before they set sail.

10-1pm – Diving club do Sea search dive at local wreck off Greenore.

1-2pm – Beach clean by all in community involving local sports clubs, businesses etcl2-330pm– Guest speaker(s). E.g. Coastguard 50-year service feature, local historican on history of Greenore port and link to world famous pirate radio ships.