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Uninformative press release aboot thon sheugh
Plans to restore the Upper Lough Erne to Clones section of the Ulster Canal are being pursued by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht it...
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Saunderson’s Sheugh and northsouthery update
I’m trying to catch up on things I was too busy to cover late last year. Saunderson’s Sheugh 1 For new readers: the proposed rebuilding of the Ulster Canal started off in the 1990s with the idea of...
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From the [UK] Civil Service Quarterly
An interesting article [h/t celr] about the setting up of the Canal & River Trust, which runs (it says itself) 2000 miles of waterway in England and Wales. The article is not, perhaps, to be seen...
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Ulster Canal restoration: a history
Studies 1994–2000 Socio-economic summary report and feasibility study 2006 North/South Ministerial Council agreement 2007, with the Irish government to pay the full cost DCAL business case to DAHG 2015...
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Minister talks through her hat
I originally had a rather more rude heading …. The Minister for Waterways and Other Stuff has decided to have the River Finn dredged to aid her reelection campaign shut up the Shinners promote peace...
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Sort it yourself, Heather
No, that’s not me saying it: that’s the message from Enda Kenny to Heather Humphreys about Saunderson’s Sheugh. Recall that Ms Humphreys’s Northern Ireland counterpart has been pressing her to do...
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Hurrah for the red, white and orange
Colour discrimination seems to be rampant in Ireland. Of the sets of colours [red, white and blue] and [green, white and orange], there is Official Endorsement of two, green and blue, while red, white...
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WI and the RoI budget for 2016
Budget documents [available here] include the Part IV Estimates for Public Services 2016 [PDF]. The Summary of Gross Expenditure (Capital and Current) by Ministerial Vote Group shows that the...
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Thon Sheugh and WI’s budget
A Sinn Féin MLA, whose party colleague is one of two ministers responsible for Waterways Ireland, has expressed concern about WI’s financial position: Phil Flanagan: Is the [North South Ministerial]...
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RoI Budget 2016 for 2017
The Irish government’s Expenditure Report 2017 Parts I to III is available here [PDF]. The Department of Fairytales [aka Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs] gets a 1% increase for...
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