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Draft canal byelaws: comments
I have sent to Waterways Ireland my comments on the proposed canals byelaws, on everything from the structure of the document to the finer points of wording. Here is a summary of what I said about the...
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Comments closing
Very large numbers of new readers have visited this site in recent days and have read my posts about the draft WI canals byelaws. I am grateful to them and even more grateful to those who took the...
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The cost of parking a boat
On the east side of Dublin Poolbeg: €280 per metre for a year plus membership; €20 a night for visitors. Dun Laoghaire: €435 per metre with facilities for a year, €290 per metre without; €3.60 per...
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Quick work
Since some time yesterday (after 3.00pm, I presume) WI’s website has said: Waterways Ireland undertakes Public Consultations as required under the legislation. There is currently one consultation...
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Relationships: guest post by Adele Picard
I invited Adele Picard to write a piece explaining why canal-based boaters are distrustful of Waterways Ireland. I am very grateful to her for agreeing to do so. The post’s appearance here does not...
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English pensioners
How useful it is to have such well-informed politicians as John Kelly, a Labour Party senator from Co Roscommon. He was able to tell us that there are 300–400 people “moored on our canals and...
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Shinners losing patience over sheugh
Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin [SF, Cavan-Monaghan] in the Dáil on 5 February 2014: There is no excuse for either the British or the Irish Governments to stand over any delay in advancing with key cross-Border...
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Canal tourists or canal pensioners?
La Serre Nibbling yesterday on a morsel of cured salmon, with fennel and apple salad, lemon crème fraiche and lavender jelly, at the excellent La Serre restaurant at the Village at Lyons, I looked...
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Backing Basil
Can it be that there are two sane politicians on the island of Ireland? If so, that would be the highest number since Morpeth and Mulgrave. Down here in the Free State we have the Sainted Leo Varadkar...
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WI funding
The cuts in funding to Waterways Ireland have been covered here many times. Now, thanks to the invaluable KildareStreet, we have official information on the matter from the Minister for Fairytales. A...
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