Irish Examiner view: Hard choices in struggle against coastal erosion

Local representatives recalled a €25m plan to fight coastal erosion at a meeting of Cork County Council yesterday. Pictured is Youghal's front strand in Co. Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.

The relentless advance of the sea has become a truth of our time. Once-productive land is now, in so many places, below the highwater mark. 

Homes and roads have been abandoned to waves or coastal erosion.