Hazardous gas can found on beach

FIRE brigade personnel and Coast Guard volunteers safely removed a canister containing a hazardous gas which was washed up on one of the country’s most popular beaches.

The alarm was raised at around 8pm on Sunday when a man walking along the beach at Lahinch in Co Clare, called the regional fire control centre in Limerick to report he found two metal canisters containing a material which he believed could be harmful.

As darkness fell, gardaí, the Doolin unit of the Irish Coast Guard and three units of Ennistymon Fire Brigade assembled in the car park at Lahinch beach.