You will be pleased to learn that, on 28 May 2010, Arthur Scott (Director of the Culture Division) and Rosalie Flanagan (Permanent Secretary) of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure each received from Waterways Ireland a waterways mug and a book on the Royal Canal, total value £20 each. Later in the year, however, Rosalie Flanagan declined an invitation, estimated to be worth £8, to the opening of the Royal Canal on 1 October 2010.
Mrs Flanagan and husband are members of the Belfast Boat Club but do not hold any position on the Club’s Committees or Council. Orla Bateson, Head of DCAL’s Research & Statistics Branch, is a committee member of Intercity Paddlers, a Belfast canoe club.
Irish waterways history 