A prohibition notice of the bathing water at Kilkee Beach in Co Clare has been lifted.

HSE worked with Clare County Council following excess rainfall over the weekend which gave rise to a concern that elevated levels of bacteria could be present in the bathing water.

Following testing of the water, the bathing water notice has been lifted.

This comes after the lifting of a separate precautionary bathing prohibition notice that was issued on the beach last Wednesday. This was removed following a successful sampling programme which was completed on Monday, 31 July.

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The original precautionary notice was put in place following an electrical malfunction at the 40 year old Kilkee Pump Station in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Irish Water reacted promptly and had the plant back up and running by 11am that morning.

Irish Water will continue with its programme of upgrade works to the Kilkee Pump Station which will be complete in a couple of months. Due to the complex nature of these works some elements have been completed but the full programme of works will take a couple of more months to be finalised.

(CD/LM)