The playground in Rossbeigh Co Kerry before the sea came to seriously change everything.
Ireland is a small Island on the west of Europe and to our west the Atlantic Ocean which is rather large and sometimes can be seriously wild. Last weekend the sea rose as it does every month with what we know as Spring tides. But this time they coincided with a storm wrapped right around the Atlantic ocean. Storm Christine as it was to be known was to cause damage from Donegal in the north west of Ireland to Portugal and changed how we see Atlantic weather. Last weekend as it struck, no one could have perceived the damage it was to cause.
Rossbeigh sits in the Dingle Peninsula with nothing but the wild Ocean to it’s west. Stones lie now where children once played, signs are now thrown around as if they too were washed up by a vigorous and unforgiving sea which not only rose but came to leave it’s mark. Is global warming upon us?
Eugene Ryan 