In July 2009, the EPA launched a new online map-based website Splash (www.bathingwater.ie) that provides the public with bathing water quality information for the 131 designated bathing areas around Ireland.
The website provides the latest bathing water sampling results for each bathing area during the bathing season and their compliance status with EU bathing water quality standards. It also provides information about the compliance history of these bathing areas from 2003 onwards. In addition, the website provides a description of the beach, aerial and ordinary photography, details of blue flag status and lifeguard availability, as well as current weather and tidal information.
The national bathing water report which the EPA previously published annually has now been replaced by Splash, which provides in addition to other items, an overview of bathing water quality status at various levels: national, each relevant local authority, each river basin district and each designated bathing area.
Check out the EPA bathing water quality website Splash.
