Suzanne Harrington: Abandoned dog poo is a flagrant faecal violation of social contract 

Why are Irish dogs engaged in some sort of dirty protest? Where are the fines?
A sign about cleaning up after a dog at a beach; the thing with not picking up after your dog is that it’s the dogs who get banned from public spaces, not the humans. Picture: Denis Minihane.

A sign about cleaning up after a dog at a beach; the thing with not picking up after your dog is that it’s the dogs who get banned from public spaces, not the humans. Picture: Denis Minihane.

Like Irish summers, Irish beaches are not as they used to be. 

Oat lattes out of horseboxes, vans doing Biscoff crepes, pizzas hot from portable pizza ovens, even the occasional display of DryRobe in the un-Irish August heat; we’ve come a long way from anoraks and Mr Whippy and huddling behind windbreakers, shivering. 

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