Fears for tourism after unspoilt Kerry beaches earmarked for oyster farming

Public anger is intensifying after unspoilt tourist beaches on the Ring of Kerry were earmarked for oyster farming.

More than 1,000 signatures have been gathered in a campaign of opposition which is only beginning to take off, against proposed shoreline farming between Dooks and Rossbeigh on the Iveragh Peninsula.

Eight applications involving some 400 acres are proposed, in a pocket stretching from Dooks Golf Links to the breach in the sands’ spit at the rear of the blue flag beach of Rossbeigh.