Waterways Ireland tender documents are a source of interesting and occasionally useful information. At present WI is looking for tenders for
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Read about the EU’s Waterways Forward project here and download PDFs showing what the Irish participants Waterways Ireland and South Tipperary County Council got out of the project. WI’s project was on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive on the Royal and Grand Canals; South Tipperary County Council’s was about generating a shared vision for the Suir through the River Café project.
Some folk may recognise the canal boat on the WI document. That fella gets in everywhere.
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Have you ever wondered, as you grounded on a sand bar or fought a current upstream, quite why the River Barrow is so challenging?
Here is a confession (with photos) from the man wot done it — in 1931 ….
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The Anglo-Celt reports that Ballyconnell, Co Cavan, is to have a new “inner relief road” (a cure for indigestion?). The road will cross the Junction Canal (Shannon–Erne Waterway), or Woodford Canal as the newspaper calls it, on “an expansive new bridge”:
The bridge has to allow enough clearance for boating traffic on the canal. The new road will come out past the Old Ennis Mill location and just before the Quinn cement plant.
The work is to be finished by August 2012. The Waterways Ireland website has, as yet, no information about any interruption to navigation during construction.
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… bigs it up for the Barrow, specifically a walk from Graiguenamanagh to St Mullins.
… just some of the things you can see from the Killimer to Tarbert ferry.
Actually, I lied about the weirs, but they were there once. As were the salmon.
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… is buried at Killimer.
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O’Briensbridge, covered here on this site, makes the front page of the Clare Champion this week.
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… says The Meath Chronicle, looking at events of 1931.
The Irish Times of 25 August 2011 has news of the Fry Model Railway.
Irish waterways history