In 2025 Meath Local Sports Partnership launched four new beach swimming shelters in the Laytown/Bettystown area. The shelters will allow access for swimmers to change in comfort. The shelters have been put in place due to the significant growth in the popularity of outdoor swimming in recent years, yielding a breadth of physical and social wellbeing benefits.
Funding was made available to the Local Sports Partnership network in 2024, by Minister for Public Health, Wellbeing, and the National Drugs Strategy Hildegarde Naughton TD for outdoor swimming infrastructure projects.
Meath LSP were successful in their application to Sport Ireland (who administered the fund on behalf of the department) and were approved €23,000 for the development of the beach shelters in the Laytown/Bettystown area. Working in tandem with the staff team of the municipal district in Laytown/Bettystown, Meath LSP installed four shelters to improve access and facilities at the following outdoor swimming locations:
Within the grant provision, allocation was also made for the painting of the shelters.
