With easy access from Dublin, Wicklow’s beaches have long been a popular escape from the city, especially when temperatures soar. Strung along the eastern coast of the Irish sea, they may be less dramatic than the Atlantic beaches of the west of Ireland, but offer long stretches of good sandy beach, lots of opportunities for water sports and and some truly fine shore angling. While some can become quite crowded on a sunny day, there are often smaller almost deserted beaches close by, where ...