A man has been taken to Beaumont Hospital after he was assaulted last night at Dollymount Strand in North Dublin.

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About 10 minutes into the second half yesterday, an unmistakable salty air wafted into Croke Park. Tyrone couldn’t be collared for it. Not this time.

AN interesting report recently landed on my desk about how much time modern fathers spend with their children. Well OK, it was a piece that I saw online while having some Maccheroni fired at me by a one-foot human but you get the drift, and in the end research is research.

A casualty was winched to safety this morning by the Irish Coastguard helicopter on Dollymount Strand in Dublin.

Car access to Dollymount Strand is being restored by Dublin City Council.

A permanent ban on cars at Dollymount Strand in Dublin is to be put in place.

“To get results, you have to do whatever it takes.”

IT’S SUMMER, and while gardens, parks and meadows throughout the land have burst into blossom, nowhere will boast brighter colours or dreamier scents than the RDS, which transforms into a floral paradise next week.

It has been confirmed by the family of Fair City actor Gerry McCann that the body found on Dollymount Beach yesterday was his.

Gardaí in Dublin are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a man's body on Dollymount Strand.

Something you will probably never see Rosscarbery's Warren beach, Skerries, Dollymount strand, Inch Strand or Brittas Bay.

Eight parks around Dublin have been officially designated as quiet areas.

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Gardaí are investigating the discovery of a human arm on a beach in Dublin yesterday.

Salmon have returned to the once heavily polluted Tolka River in Dublin for the first time in 100 years.

Six Irish beaches have lost their blue-flag status this year, according to the latest list published by the Department of the Environment.

A DIP in water quality because of last summer’s heavy rain is being blamed for a downturn in the amount of Irish beaches receiving blue flag awards.

LAST year’s wet summer is being blamed for a downturn in the number of bathing areas meeting EU quality targets.

OVER the small stream that borders our garden, the last purple cascades of buddleia are still laden with butterflies.

IN response to Anne Keohane’s letter (Irish Examiner, August 20), let me point out I didn’t come up with the statistic indicating that agriculture is responsible for 75% of waterways pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency did.

I AM amazed you would allow Seán de Paor (Irish Examiner letters, August 13) make a sweeping statement accusing farmers of being the main contributors to waterway pollution.

IRELAND has received its highest ever number of Blue Flags for water quality with 78 beaches and four marinas being awarded the honour by the International Blue Flag Jury for 2005.

DUBLIN Lord Mayor Dermot Lacey yesterday declared the northside beauty spot of Dollymount Strand a car-free zone to mark the 10th anniversary of the Earth Summit in Rio.