The North-South Ministerial Council held a plenary meeting in Dublin on 10 June 2011. The only waterways item was this:
Waterways Ireland will host a meeting in Enniskillen from 13-16 September 2011 for its 17 partners from 13 countries in an INTERREG IVc project entitled ‘Waterways Forward’.
No mention of the Ulster Canal, but the participants did big up that other fatuous scheme, the over-specced A5 road, towards which the penniless southern state is about to pay £11,000,000 (that’s real pounds).
Is the Ulster Canal doomed?
Irish waterways history 