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Derek Lahiff enjoys the water at the Forty Foot in 2011. graph: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland
Your Say

Poll: Is it warm enough to go swimming in the Irish Sea?

Or the Atlantic? Or your local lake?

TEMPERATURES REACHED THE mid-to-high teens today – and we all know what that means…

Packed beaches, covered in pasty-skinned Irish folk – desperate for the summer to begin, and unwilling to wait for a properly-warm day to take the plunge.

This evening’s RTÉ News broadcasts featured a report from Sandycove in Dublin – populated (as usual, of an Irish springtime) by poor, shivering children saying things like “it’s alright when you get in”.

What do you think?


Poll Results:

No. Nay. Never. (4006)
I'm waiting till August. (2723)
Let's take a dip. (2528)
I'm flying to Florida. (986)

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