Dramatic change at Rossbeigh

MANY people have been to their favourite beach at least once this summer. And, no matter how old they might be, they probably saw little or no change from the time they first went there as children.

Unfortunately, I cannot say the same for my favourite seaside haven, Rossbeigh, on the Ring of Kerry, which has undergone dramatic, even frightening change in recent years.

Rossbeigh is a long, narrow peninsula, called a spit, with sand dunes as a backbone. Powerful waves broke through the dunes during a storm in December 2008, dividing the spit in two and creating a new island.