Shark’s travel tale stirs up frenzy

ARECENT newspaper headline announced: “As great white shark Lydia closes in on UK, Brits brace for bloody mayhem on holiday beaches.” The “man-eater” with “razor-sharp teeth” will soon arrive here, we were told. She was “on course for Ireland”.

What nonsense.

Lydia seems to have abandoned her plan to visit Europe; latest reports say she is heading northwards towards Greenland but, if she does veer south again and turns up at Salthill or Ballybunion, no one is likely to be harmed.