{"id":11176,"date":"2014-06-09T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=11176"},"modified":"2014-06-09T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T08:31:00","slug":"an-taisce-blue-flag-and-green-coast-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=11176","title":{"rendered":"An Taisce Blue Flag and Green Coast Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Annabel FitzGerald, Coastal Programmes Manager with An Taisce, The National Trust for Ireland, talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside Today about this year&#8217;s Blue Flag and Green Coast Awards.  She says that in all, 80 International Blue Flag and 54 National Green Coast Awards were made this year to locations around Ireland. Blue Flag beaches must be identified bathing waters and are judged against a total of 32 criteria while the Green Coast Awards can be made to non-identified bathing waters and go to beaches that have excellent water quality and a 5-year beach management plan, with local communities encouraged to engage in the management of the beach. These beaches might not have all the facilities needed for the Blue Flag status but they are exceptional places to visit. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueflagireland.org\">www.blueflagireland.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleancoastsireland.org\">www.cleancoastsireland.org<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6916\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/AnTaisceBlueFlagandGreenCoastAwards2014.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6916','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/AnTaisceBlueFlagandGreenCoastAwards2014.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/AnTaisceBlueFlagandGreenCoastAwards2014.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=11176-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/AnTaisceBlueFlagandGreenCoastAwards2014.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"AnTaisceBlueFlagandGreenCoastAwards2014.mp3\">Download<\/a> (9.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annabel FitzGerald, Coastal Programmes Manager with An Taisce, The National Trust for Ireland, talks to Noel McGuinness on Northside Today about this year&#8217;s Blue Flag and Green Coast Awards. She says that in all, 80 International Blue Flag and 54 National Green Coast Awards were made this year to locations around Ireland. Blue Flag beaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6917\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/AnTaisceBlueFlagandGreenCoastAwards2014.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6917','http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/AnTaisceBlueFlagandGreenCoastAwards2014.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playbutton-443.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/AnTaisceBlueFlagandGreenCoastAwards2014.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?powerpress_pinw=11176-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nearfm\/neararchive.org\/upload\/AnTaisceBlueFlagandGreenCoastAwards2014.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"AnTaisceBlueFlagandGreenCoastAwards2014.mp3\">Download<\/a> (9.5MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,44],"tags":[227,255,394,395,457,676,1424,2205,2239],"class_list":["post-11176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-northside-today","tag-an-taisce","tag-annabel-fitzgerald","tag-bathing-waters","tag-beaches","tag-blue-flag-award","tag-coastal-programme","tag-green-coast-award","tag-noel-mcguinness","tag-northside-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}