Over 4,000 volunteers to clean up coasts to mark World Ocean Day

Clean-ups will take place across Cork, including Cobh, Inch, Lee Fields, Cork City's Marina, Passage West, and Cape Clear island. Picture: Larry Cummins

More than 4,000 people will take to beaches across Ireland, including 64 in Cork, to clean up the coasts and seas on Thursday to mark World Ocean Day.

Some 300 groups have been signed up for the Clean Coasts environmental programme, which will see clean-ups happening all across the island.