Philip Boucher Hayes
speaker
3,375 appearances
85 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Philip Boucher Hayes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 85 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 58.
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Alwyn Moran, thank you very much.
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Child Neurological Developmental Therapist and Ellen Coyne Political Correspondent with the Irish Times.
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The extended good weather has highlighted something interesting.
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For an island nation with a capital city on a bay, we have remarkably few places to go for a dip in the sea.
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Dubliners are particularly badly served.
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Between Hoth and Shankill, there are about 15 recognised sea swimming spots, one for every 100,000 dubs.
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Despite sitting on a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, outdoor facilities lag well behind our European neighbours.
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With no public Lido's, we have polluted canals and strict bans on urban swimming.
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So as hotter summers become more common, should we be investing in more outdoor swimming facilities from Lido's and tidal pools to cleaner rivers and canals?
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I'm joined by Mary McMorrow, CEO of Swim Ireland, and by Ula Nordrum from Irish Doctors for the Environment.
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Ula, can I begin with you, please?
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You recently wrote a piece on this issue and you argue that access to outdoor swimming isn't just about leisure anymore.
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This is a public health issue.
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Mary, do you think that Dubliners are particularly badly served?
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I mean, not only is there only a relatively small number of places, they're kind of hard to access.
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Ula, when you look at our canals and our rivers, you look at the Tolka where there was just a fish kill a few days ago.
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Is there good reason for currently having a ban on urban swimming?
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Lack of ambition, Mary, a lack of vision, because I was just looking at pictures of the Lido in Canary Wharf in the centre of London.
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I think if you had suggested to anybody 20 years ago that they'd be able to go swimming in Canary Wharf, they would have said not in your lifetime.
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But there you are now.
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