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Liveaboards and planning permission

Posted on Thursday 3 October 2019 | 1 comment

The minister speaks.

Posted in Canals, Economic activities, Extant waterways, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Waterways management

Tagged houseboats, liveaboards, planning permission, residential boating, Waterways Ireland

Liveaboards

Posted on Sunday 15 July 2018 | 8 comments

I do hope that Waterways Ireland finds inspiration in this story from the Grauniad, wherein we learn that the Canal and River Trust, which manages many waterways in England and Wales, is able to charge over £12000 for city-centre moorings.

Posted in Built heritage, Canals, Economic activities, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Irish waterways general, Modern matters, Operations, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged C&RT, Canal and River Trust, liveaboards, Waterways Ireland

Jimmy Deenihan, cricketer

Posted on Friday 31 January 2014 | 2 comments

Jimmy Deenihan, minister for waterways and some other stuff, supporter of the Lartigue Monorail in Listowel, is known to have played two forms of football: rugby and Gaelic. His cricketing expertise is perhaps less well known but, in a written answer to four Dáil questions yesterday, he showed his mastery of the straight bat.

I was surprised to find Bernard Durkan [FG, Kildare North] referring to “traditional canal boat dwellers”. I suppose it depends on your timescales: in my view, anything that began after 1850 isn’t really traditional.

Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Canals, Charles Wye Williams, Drainage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, People, Politics, Sources, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged barge, Barrow, boats, bridge, canal, cricket, department of arts heritage and the gaeltacht, Dublin, Gaelic, Garryowen, Grand Canal, Ireland, Jimmy Deenihan, Lartigue, liveaboards, lock, Operations, Royal Canal, rugby, vessels, water level, waterways, Waterways Ireland

One for liveaboards

Posted on Tuesday 25 September 2012 | Leave a comment

A Polish/German artist is showing an exhibition in Chelsea about an English houseboat community. Indie story here and photos here; if googling for “What the water gave me”, include the artist’s name Dubno to avoid results about a song by a hip beat combo. WI can count its blessings.

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Posted in Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Foreign parts, People, Scenery

Tagged boats, houseboats, liveaboards, residential boating