Tag Archives: Waterways Ireland

Progress is progressing on the Ulster Canal (it says here)

Posted on Tuesday 22 November 2011 | Leave a comment

The Joint Communiqué from the last Plenary Meeting of the North/South  Ministerial Council meeting (18 November 2011) can now be read or downloaded (PDF) from the NSMC website. It has much to say about the Ulster Canal:

Progress on the Ulster Canal is progressing incrementally with the planning process ongoing.

Er … right. That’s it, then. Progress is progressing, eh? Well, I never.

We’ve now had an Inland Waterways Sectoral Meeting (12 October 2011) and a Plenary Meeting, neither of which has said anything about how (or whether) the canal to Clones is to be funded. Why not? Shouldn’t they show us the money?

 

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NI Programme for Government

Posted on Thursday 17 November 2011 | Leave a comment

The Northern Ireland Executive’s Programme for Government (PDF) is available for download here. The accompanying statement to the Northern Ireland Assembly by the First Minister and deputy First Minister (MW Word .docx) is downloadable here and can also be read on the Assembly’s website here.

There is no mention of waterways or canals in either document.

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NSMC

Posted on Thursday 17 November 2011 | Leave a comment

The Irish Times says that there is to be a meeting of the North-South Ministerial Council on Friday 18 November 2011, with the A5 road on the agenda. Perhaps there will be some news about how the proposed Clones Canal is to be funded.

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The Ulster Canal

Posted on Wednesday 16 November 2011 | Leave a comment

A modest proposal here for funding the canal.

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Posted in Built heritage, Economic activities, Engineering and construction, Industrial heritage, Ireland, Irish inland waterways vessels, Operations, Politics, Restoration and rebuilding, Ulster Canal, waterways, Waterways management

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What’s my number?

Posted on Wednesday 16 November 2011 | 1 comment

Grass-cutting team's van at Ballyconnell ...

... and van at Riversdale

Notice that both vehicles have the same number on their sides:

WCPDC-08-1153

What is it?

It’s Waterways Ireland’s Waste Collection Permit number, issued by Dublin City Council to Waterways Ireland at its Enniskillen address, but handled by the Environment Officer in WI’s Scarriff office. The permit allows WI staff to pick up rubbish along their waterways in counties Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Fingal, Galway, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Leitrim, Limerick, Longford, Meath, Monaghan, North Tipperary, Offaly, Roscommon, South Dublin and Westmeath and in Dublin and Limerick cities. It will expire on 17 June 2014, so the link above may stop working after that.

Note that WI is not permitted to pick up dogshit (if that’s what “animal by-products” are) or batteries.

WI has 92 vehicles authorised to pick up waste.

Isn’t that interesting? What a lot of stuff WI staff have to know about and what a lot of regulations they have to comply with.

 

 

 

 

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Garlic for engineers

Posted on Friday 11 November 2011 | Leave a comment

Information has arrived from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. I have accordingly updated my page about the Ulster Canal and the Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-16: Medium Term Exchequer Framework.

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The Ulster Canal and the Irish economy

Posted on Friday 11 November 2011 | Leave a comment

The Irish government has decided that it cannot afford to pay for:

  • a road in the United Kingdom
  • some railway lines in Dublin, Meath and the west
  • a prison in the countryside.

But what of the Ulster Canal? It is not explicitly mentioned in the Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-16: Medium Term Exchequer Framework document published on 10 November 2011. It is not clear that the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht will have enough money to pay for it: here is my assessment. In the absence of explicit information from the department, I would welcome information from other sources.

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The Suir

Posted on Thursday 10 November 2011 | 1 comment

South Tipperary County Council participated in the EU Waterways Forward project, with a focus on the River Suir. Here is a brief report on the Suir River Café project.

The other Irish participant was Waterways Ireland, whose project (PDF) was about the implementation of the Water Framework Directive on canals.

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Protestants, Catholics and Waterways Ireland

Posted on Sunday 16 October 2011 | 1 comment

How many Protestants does Waterways Ireland employ in Northern Ireland? Jim Allister MLA has found out; the answer is here.

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Marketing

Posted on Tuesday 13 September 2011 | Leave a comment

Troll on over to WI’s website where you can download the Draft Marketing Strategy 2011–2016. The current version has no images (thank goodness) — and no (or very few) numbers for tangible outcomes.

The annual marketing spend by Waterways Ireland is approximately €1million per annum with additional funding of approximately €2million being leveraged from other organisations to support the inland waterways sector.

“But what good came of it at last?” quoth Little Peterkin.
“Why, that I cannot tell,” said he, “but ’twas a famous victory.”

 

 

 

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