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User surveys
Last Saturday, I had just checked that the nineteen members of the Inland Waterways Protection Society, and accompanying walkers from O’Briensbridge Community Group, IWAI Lough Derg Branch and...
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A use for the Royal
In an article on making use of the Royal Canal, I wrote: [...] I am neither active in user groups nor a confidant of Waterways Ireland, so it is quite possible that folk have developed, or are...
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The Suir towing-path
His late Most Excellent Majesty Henry the Eighth, by the Grace of God, King of England and France, Defender of the Faith, Lord of Ireland and of the Church of England and also of Ireland in Earth...
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Luddite loons
I have commented from time to time on the reluctance of some Irish folk to move beyond the technologies of the eighteenth century. Thus we find Shinners wanting canals all over the place and folk in...
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Are the Sheughers …
… seeing sense? A cynic (not that there are any of them around here) might say that DAHG feels that it has done as much as it’s going to do (admittedly at Waterways Ireland’s expense) by dredging the...
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Walking the Royal
Great walking match A CELEBRATED MATCH is now performing by W F Simpson, a Native of Dublin, at RUSSELL-STREET, or JONES’S-BRIDGE, Royal Canal. He purposes Walking 1000 Quarter Miles in 1000 Quarter...
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