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Notes on Sandycove & Glasthule, County Dublin

See here for more stories of County Dublin.   The Forty-Foot   Sandycove is the setting for one of Dublin’s best-known bathing destinations. The Forty-Foot was traditionally men-only but in 1974 a group called the Dublin City Women’s Invasionary Force launched a protest along the shore and took to the waters. Women have swum here ever […]