Coastal communities join forces to protect eco-systems

Clean Coasts Ballynamona unveiled a new €25,000 four-wheeled utility vehicle named 'The Gator' in April to help it step up its ongoing fight against the scourge of marine litter

Volunteers who took part in a socially distanced one hour beach clean organised by Clean Coasts Ballynamona at Ballycrennane beach, East Cork.

Community groups from Cork up to Donegal have joined forces in a bid to protect precious but delicate coastline ahead of the expected influx of visitors over the coming summer months.

Some 18 coastal community groups have come together to form the Coastal Life Collective, calling for local authorities with jurisdiction over coastlines, as well as other organisations and bodies, to implement a range of measures that they say would ease huge pressure on endangered flora and fauna, as well the lands they live in.