Mr Hogan said he had been negotiating with the European Commission in 2011 and 2012 to minimise the impact of new septic tank regulations.
That’s from this article in the Irish Times.
Why does this chap want to minimise the impact of his own department’s regulations? Is he not at all interested in water quality?
Angela, would you mind invading please?
If you don’t like hanging around airports, Shannon offers you a choice: you can go and look at the estuary instead, which is much more interesting.
Shannon Foynes Port Company workboat Shannon 1 passing Shannon Airport; Ringmoylan Pier in the background
Shannon 1, the successor to Curraghgour II, is a Damen MultiCat.
Shannon Foynes Port Company has updated its website.
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From Robert Mallett MRIA, MSCEI “On certain improved Methods of constructing Valves or Sluices, as applied to Canal and Dock Gates, &c, and similar Works of Hydraulic Engineering” in The Architectural Magazine 1837.
A target for WI to aim for?
A poem by Sir Aubrey de Vere, father of the more famous Aubrey Thomas de Vere. The family estates were at Curraghchase, now a forest park, on the south side of the Shannon estuary and now best known as the home of Caroline Rigney, producer of some of Ireland’s best bacon. Sir Aubrey’s wife was one Mary Rice, of the Mount Trenchard family, one of whose members had a major role in the development of the Shannon in the 1840s.
How beautiful the tints of closing even!
The dark blue hills, the crimson glow of heaven,
The shadows purpling o’er the wat’ry scene,
Now streaked with gold — now tinged with tender green;
And yon bright path that burns along the deep,
Ere the sun sinks behind his western steep,
Soft fades the parting glory through the sky,
Commingling with the cool aerial dye;
While every cloud still kindling in the beam,
In mirrored beauty prints the waveless stream,
Light barques, with dusky sails, scarce seen to glide,
Bend their brown shadows o’er the glowing tide;
And hark! at intervals the sound of oars
Comes, faint from distance, to the silent shores,
Blent with the plaintive cadence of the song
Of boatmen, chanting as they drift along.
But see the radiant orb now sinks apace —
Gradual and slow, he stoops his glorious face;
And now — but half his swelling disk appears —
And now, how quickly gone! he scarcely rears
One burning point above the mountain’s head —
And now, the last expiring beam has fled.
The “light barques” probably included some turf boats.
There are more poems by Sir Aubrey here.
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A year ago, in March 2011, I wrote about Waterways Ireland’s attempt to reorganise the liveaboard boats on the Grand Canal at Sallins. That attempt ultimately failed, and WI’s provision of houseboat moorings at Shannon Harbour was likewise unsuccessful: usually reliable sources tell me that two spaces have been allocated, but to non-residential boats.
Amongst the concentrations of boats parked on the Grand Canal (most of them disregarding the five-day rule), the proportions of residential boats are [I think: I know of no reliable statistics] higher at Hazelhatch and Sallins, both at the eastern end, rather lower at Lowtown and lowest at Tullamore and Shannon Harbour.
It seems that WI’s focus has shifted away from the residential boats, which it tried to tackle last year, to the non-residential boats: it has recently issued Marine Notices warning that the five-day rule will be enforced at hard-edged [ie the best] moorings on Tullamore’s “spur line” and between the 35th Lock and Griffith Bridge at Shannon Harbour. However, no notices have so far been issued about Lowtown, Sallins or Hazelhatch.
I think WI is right to separate the residential issue from the parking, but it will be interesting to see what is planned for the eastern end of the canal.
Incidentally, all of this smacks of Kremlinology, trying to deduce policy positions from minor clues, and is necessarily speculative. It would be really nice if WI published policy proposals on its website, invited comments and then formally promulgated the final policies.
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Tagged boats, bridge, canal, Dublin, Grand Canal, Hazelhatch, Ireland, kremlinology, liveaboard, lock, Lowtown, Operations, residential boating, Sallins, Shannon Harbour, Tullamore, waterways, Waterways Ireland
You will be pleased to learn that, on 28 May 2010, Arthur Scott (Director of the Culture Division) and Rosalie Flanagan (Permanent Secretary) of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure each received from Waterways Ireland a waterways mug and a book on the Royal Canal, total value £20 each. Later in the year, however, Rosalie Flanagan declined an invitation, estimated to be worth £8, to the opening of the Royal Canal on 1 October 2010.
Mrs Flanagan and husband are members of the Belfast Boat Club but do not hold any position on the Club’s Committees or Council. Orla Bateson, Head of DCAL’s Research & Statistics Branch, is a committee member of Intercity Paddlers, a Belfast canoe club.
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