Boogie on over to the WI website for a copy of the WI draft heritage plan, and send WI your comments by 6 November 2015.
WI staff have put a lot of work into this and consulted various people, including me. I argued for a more activist approach, with more history and less about communities, and I would have let the twitchers and other nature-lovers look after themselves and their little feathered friends …
Freeloading birds hijacking facility at Athlone intended for (and paid for by) humans. And who’s going to have to pay for cleaning it? Humans, that’s who. Human rights, that’s what we need …
… but I quite appreciate that Waterways Ireland has to be polite to all these people and can’t disobey the law, no matter how insane the legislation is.
But I digress. Get some comments in, preferably plugging industrial and transport heritage and economic history.
Irish waterways history 