Jonathan McCrea talks to Professor Iris Möller about the dynamic nature of the coast.

Professor Iris Möller, Coastal Geomorphologist and Chair of Geography at Trinity College, Dublin, discusses the changes happening around Ireland’s coast. She highlights the relatively recent formation of North Bull Island, now home to two golf courses, and explains the even more recent accumulation of a sand spit at Booterstown that helped protect the DART line from flooding during recent storms.  This spit was formed by nature and Professor Möller advises us that nature, rather than hard defences, more efficiently disperses wave energy that reaches our coast.

Professor Möller will be the Guest Speaker at the public meeting hosted by Blue Ireland and local community groups in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire on 3rd March 2026.

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