Diving boards campaigner perplexed by ‘strange’ sign

Kilkee diving boards campaigner Tom Byrne was one of the first local people to dive from the restored boards in Newfoundout, Kilkee, on Tuesday morning. On hearing that the boards were back, Byrne, who initiated a 3,000 member Facebook site on the issue, immediately headed for the West End.

By Tuesday evening he says that both boards were straining with people keen to make up for their lost five weeks of diving.
“It was great  on Tuesday night when the tide was in. There were about 100 kids there and everyone was delighted. Everyone was thrilled. No accidents, nothing,” Tom said.
However, he cannot understand why Clare County Council have erected a ‘no diving’ sign at Newfoundout.
“There is a proliferation of signs that the council have put in there. I can’t understand them and nobody can understand them. They put the boards back yet they’ve a ‘no diving’ sign there. I just think it’s very strange to have put back the boards and then to put up a ‘no diving’ sign beside them. Figure that one out,” he said. 
Acting Kilkee Town Manager Nora Kaye told The Clare Champion that the sign in question is in place to encourage people not to dive from the grass area, next to the boards.
“They also have this new sign which has no words on it but it’s yellow and black. I was asked ten times on Tuesday ‘what does that mean?’ Nobody has any idea what it means,” Tom Byrne added.
Having thought very hard about it though he thinks that he has worked out what the mysterious sign signals. 
“I think what they’re trying to say is that there’s submerged rocks under the water, but I can’t figure out what the graphic is. It’s badly designed and it’s badly done. It wasn’t in the report. It said there was a probability of submerged rocks but they never said whether there was or not. But I know for a fact that there aren’t submerged rocks where the divers are,” Tom stated.
He also claimed that potential visitors to Kilkee have cancelled their holidays due to the absence of the boards, while he feels that the best summer weather was in June, when the boards were out of action.
The Irish Water Safety risk assessment was carried out on June 15 and 16 last. It is valid until June 2013.