Richard Collins: Leatherback turtles are long-distance seasonal migrants to Irish waters

Unfortunately a leatherback turtle found on a beach at Portmarnock this month had died

Ocean warming is tempting sea-turtles to travel northwards. Some even venture beyond the Arctic Circle. Picture: iStock.

In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes — Andy Warhol.

On June 24, 1930, Portmarnock became, briefly, the focus of world aviation. At half-four in the morning Charles Kingsford-Smith’s plane, the Southern Cross, took off from the ’velvet strand’, bound for Newfoundland. An impressive stone monument on the promenade commemorates the event.