Cruiser Racer visitors to Dublin for this weekend's Cruiser Nationals aren't the only ones to be put off by Dublin's Bay foul smells it appears. Residents in Dublin have in recent days reported sewage like odours in the north and south of the bay. The smell is reported as far inland as Stillorgan. Diggers have been seen removing brown slude from city beaches but a City council spokesman says it is a naturally occurring algae. More on the matter in this morning's Irish Times here.
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