Learner Dad: Our two spent an hour running in and out of the waves in the rain

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THE key to enjoying the Irish summer isn’t scenery and a bag of chips on a wall. It’s neoprene, the stuff they use in wetsuits. In fact, there was no need for the government dangle staycation vouchers to persuade us to stay at home - a ll they had to do was buy everyone a new wetsuit.

We’re just back from two days in Dingle. The weather was what you might call mixed, which in normal times translates as ‘next year we’re going to Spain'.  Thankfully my wife is a world-class packer and had thrown in a variety of long and short wetsuits that she has built up over the years. The result was our two spent a n h our running in and out of the waves on Coumeenoole strand, in the rain. It was magic, thanks to neoprene.