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Championing waterways heritage

Posted on Thursday 25 August 2011 | Leave a comment

O’Briensbridge, covered here on this site, makes the front page of the Clare Champion this week.

Posted in Built heritage, Charles Wye Williams, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish waterways general, Operations, People, Politics, Restoration and rebuilding, Steamers, The cattle trade, The turf trade, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged anchor, boats, bridge, capstan, Castleconnell, Charles Wye Williams, Clare, floods, flow, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, Lough Derg, Montpelier, O'Briensbridge, Operations, quay, Shannon, turf, vessels, water level, waterways, Waterways Ireland

A la recherche …

Posted on Tuesday 23 August 2011 | Leave a comment

… and the episode of the Madelen. Heavy lifting from the slipway at Cappa Pier, Kilrush, to Hog Island.

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Posted in Ashore, Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, People, Scenery, shannon estuary, waterways

Tagged boats, Cappa, Clare, estuary, Hog Island, Ireland, Kilrush, Limerick, Madelen, Operations, Scattery, Shannon, vessels, waterways, workboat

Buried at the crossroads …

Posted on Sunday 7 August 2011 | Leave a comment

… but without a stake through its heart. The Ulster Canal is dead, but it’s spinning in its grave. Its parent department has admitted some of the truth about its funding, but Waterways Ireland will be applying for planning permission for the scheme: there’s enough money for that, but not for digging. Nonetheless, Fine Gael TDs have managed to distract attention from the absence of funding by pointing to the planning application, while Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil have not realised that a scheme’s benefits should outweigh its costs. Return of the Son of the Ghost of the Bride of the Ulster Canal on view here.

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Posted in Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Operations, People, Politics, Restoration and rebuilding, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged Anglo-Celt, assets, budget, canal, Cavan, Clones, Dáil, Deenihan, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Dublin, Erne, Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Heather Humphreys, Ireland, lost, Lough Neagh, McGinley, McLellan, minister, Monaghan, Operations, Shannon, Sinn Fein, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Funding the Ulster Canal

Posted on Monday 1 August 2011 | 1 comment

I go away for a week and suddenly there’s lots of information about the funding of the Ulster Canal …. Happily, I was on the Erne, so I was able to read the Anglo-Celt, the Leitrim Observer and the Impartial Reporter, and was thus able to keep up with the news.

The really extraordinary thing, no doubt the result of an amazing coincidence, is that this sudden access of information comes just as I expect a ruling from the Office of the Information Commissioner on my appeal against Craggy Island’s refusal to give me any meaningful information about the funding of the project.

My last letter to Craggy Island on the subject was a request for an internal review of their refusal; as expected, that too resulted in a refusal, which enabled me to go to the Information Commissioner. You might, nonetheless, be interested to read my letter.

I will comment later on the content of the recent relevations and on how they’ve been spun; happily, Ewan Duffy was not deceived by the spin.

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Posted in Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Extant waterways, Foreign parts, Forgotten navigations, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Non-waterway, Operations, Politics, Restoration and rebuilding, Tourism, waterways, Waterways management

Tagged bridge, bullshit, canal, Clones, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Erne, FOI, funding, Ireland, lost, Lough Neagh, Operations, spin, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Pue’s Occurrences

Posted on Wednesday 20 July 2011 | Leave a comment

I’ve had an article accepted at the history blog. It’s about the capstan at O’Briensbridge on the old Limerick Navigation and the trade it facilitated. There is more information about the technicalities on my own page about O’Briensbridge.

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Tagged boats, bridge, capstan, Castleconnell, cattle, Clare, Dublin, ESB, floods, flow, Grand Canal, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, Liverpool, Lough Derg, Montpelier, O'Briensbridge, Operations, quay, Shannon, turf, vessels, water level, waterways

From the Dáil

Posted on Tuesday 19 July 2011 | Leave a comment

Questions – Northern Ireland Issues, Dáil Éireann Debate Vol. 729 No 2 Unrevised

Deputy Gerry Adams:

[…] The Taoiseach might update us on other flagship projects such as the Ulster Canal — at least, it was described as a flagship project at the time it was launched. […]

The Taoiseach:

[…] A number of issues were identified which clearly, from any political point of view, would be of interest and benefit to the infrastructure and the economies North and South. The Deputy mentioned some which have been under discussion for a long time. Were we not obliged to pay €3 billion to Anglo Irish Bank for the next ten years, it would be great to be able to tell the Deputy that the Government could now deal with the Ulster Canal or a number of other issues. Unfortunately, that is not the way it is at present. Consequently, from that perspective the Government will continue to commit itself to working diligently in the interests of the development of the economies North and South and, in consequence, of the entire island. […]

[…] Deputy Adams knows we could deal with the Ulster Canal and many other issues in the north west and elsewhere in the country if we did not have this imposition and burden, but that is a fact of life. […]

[Emphasis mine]

Northern Sound News Details Jul 07 2011

[…] The Project Co-Ordinator for the regeneration of the Ulster Canal says he is not concerned about the funding issue. Gerry Darby says he is still confident that the Ulster Canal regeneration is on track.

What is the basis for that confidence?

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Tagged Anglo Irish Bank, canal, Clones, Dáil, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Enda Kenny, Erne, Gerry Adams, Gerry Darby, Ireland, Lough Neagh, Operations, Shannon, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways Ireland

OPW on the Shannon Estuary

Posted on Tuesday 19 July 2011 | Leave a comment

A brief note on the navigational interests of the Office of Public Works on the Shannon Estuary.

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Tagged Adare, Ballylongford, Board of Works, bridge, Ireland, jetties, Kerry, Limerick, lost, Maigue, navigation authority, Office of Public Works, Operations, OPW, quay, Saleen, Shannon, turf, waterways, Waterways Ireland

Ulster Canal funding

Posted on Monday 18 July 2011 | Leave a comment

When in Clones the Minister stated that he had been “warned not to give a commitment to funding” in relation to the redevelopment of the Ulster Canal, although he also remarked that he would be anxious to see the initiative going ahead.

Northern Standard 8 July 2011

Whoda thunk?

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Tagged boats, canal, Clones, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Erne, Ireland, Lough Neagh, Operations, Ulster Canal, waterways

The Junction Navigation

Posted on Thursday 14 July 2011 | Leave a comment

Here are some pages about the Junction Navigation in the Ballinamore & Ballyconnell drainage district. It later became known as the Ballinamore & Ballyconnell Canal and later still as the Shannon–Erne Waterway.

The role of the cads and bounders of the Ulster Canal Company in getting a canal built at taxpayers’ expense

The construction of the Junction Navigation at Aghoo (Lock 4)

Lock gear old and new

And here’s a reminder of an old page about the Belturbet-built dredger used in constructing the navigation.

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Tagged aghoo, belfast, Belturbet, boats, bounders, bridge, cads, canal, Clones, Department of Community Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, drainage, dredger, Dublin, Erne, gear, Grand Canal, Ireland, Killaloe, Limerick, lock, Lough Neagh, Mahony, McMahon, Mulvany, Operations, paddle, rack, Royal Canal, Shannon, turf, Ulster Canal, vessels, water level, waterways, Williams

Seol Sionna

Posted on Tuesday 21 June 2011 | Leave a comment

A reproduction Shannon Estuary turf boat is being built at Querrin.

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Tagged boats, Clare, cot, hooker, Ireland, Kilrush, Limerick, Operations, quay, Querrin, sail, Seol Sionna, Shannon, turf, vessels, waterways

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A la recherche …

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Questions – Northern Ireland Issues, Dáil Éireann Debate Vol. 729 No 2 Unrevised

Northern Sound News Details Jul 07 2011

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