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OVER €63 MILLION has been allocated in funding to improving and expanding greenways around Ireland in 2021.
Under the funding, some existing greenways will be improved and extended, and a new greenway bridge is to be constructed across the River Shannon in Athlone.
€10 million is to be put towards the Midleton-Youghal Greenway in Cork, with €9 million allocated to the Waterford-New Ross Greenway.
An expansion of the Great Western Way in Mayo will receive €5.15 million, while the TII in Galway-Athlone has been allocated €8.1 million and the Blessington Loop in Wicklow will receive €6.4 million.
Greenways in Kildare, Kerry, Offaly, Limerick, and Longford will also receive funding next year.
Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan said that the funding will provide a “step-change in the way in which we fund walking and cycling”.
“We will contribute a significant amount to the Great Southern Greenway in Limerick to support the work of the County Council in bringing the Greenway up to a modern standard,” Ryan said.
“This will ensure that cyclists will have a quality experience all the way from Rathkeale, Co Limerick to Listowel, Co Kerry.”
In Offaly, an extension of the Grand Canal Greenway from Daingean to Edenderry will be funded.
Ryan said the extension would mean that “by the end of next year it will be possible to cycle the Greenway the whole way from Edenderry to Lough Boora, over 50km worth of cycleway”.
Funding is to be put towards refurbishing the Longford Canal and providing improved infrastructure along the cycleway.
“We will also support the refurbishment of the disused New Ross to Waterford Railway as part of the Greenway connecting New Ross to Waterford City which incorporates the Kilkenny Greenway,” Ryan said.
“This cycleway will ultimately form part of an extensive cycling and walking network across the South East region and provide an environmentally friendly alternative for commuters into Waterford and New Ross.”
In Athlone, a Greenway bridge is to be constructed across the River Shannon as part of the Galway to Dublin Greenway.
Minister of State for Road Transport Hildegarde Naughton said that that the funding would “go a long way in delivering a safe and sustainable environment for active travel in our villages, towns and cities”.
“This investment will support even greater numbers enjoying our outdoors by cycling and walking for school, work and leisure,” Naughton said.
“We are also supporting the roll-out of a new Safe Routes to School Initiative. This programme will seek to accelerate the delivery of improved walking and cycling infrastructure to schools; enhance sustainable access onto school grounds; and expand the amount of cycle parking available at schools.”
In July, the government announced €4.5 million in funding for 26 new and existing greenway cyclings projects around the country.
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Houses with the number 13 sell for less in many parts of the country. Why? Cos there are so many idiots out there immersed in silly US urban culture
Jason’s gonna getcha!
I remember working in a Hotel in Toronto and the floors went from 12 to 14. The door numbers 112 to 114. I find 13 to be lucky considering I was born on the 13th.
I always find that stupid as the as floor or room 14 or whatever is still the 13th one anyway, it’s like I know a fella who got a handy landline number off eircom because no one would take it as it started with 666
We have a 12, 12a and 14, no number 13 in my estate.
Black cats are good luck here, it’s the US that has the problem.
Western superstitions about 13 are relatively mild… Out in Asia they’ll do and pay ANYTHING to avoid the number 4.
4444444444444….. Haha
Odd but true. When I worked in the Far East my apartment block had no floors 4, 13, 14 nor 24. There were no 4 apartments either they all went by letters per floor!
Ok I’ll be the 13th comment – all rubbish superstition all in the head – hocus pocus.
The only thing that comes from touching wood is a splinter, use your mental capacity for something other than fiction
13 is unlucky because there were 12 disciples and Jesus at the last supper = 13. The last supper was on a Friday so therefore Friday the 13th is thought to be unlucky!! What a load of bull!! Have a great day people!
@Deborah Jesus was a bit tied up on the Friday the last supper was the night before !
You make your own luck
I live in number 13
Because human are idiots. I grew up in a number 13 house. my parents told me that when they went to buy it off the plans in the 1970s, the estate agent asked them did they wish to change the address to 12A. FML never shied away from number 13 as a result – it has its benefits too as you get things that are associated with 13 that others will avoid!
DublinBikes @ 13 stand are most often the last bike taken.
Well would u take a chance?
Hard to take the chance with any dublin bikes given how awful the roads are
I knew a military pilot whose callsign was 13. For him it was lucky.
Sounds like a bad decision to me, she could have 28% of the value of the home in extra cash.
Las Vegas hotels follows feng shui too.
I was born on Friday the 13th and life is grand….. But I will salute a magpie lol
Can you eat magpies lol…
My daughter had the option to buy a house number 13,she deliberately decided not to. It was a good decision.
Sound like a bad decision to me, she could have 28% of the value of the home in cash.
Could have been a very good decision if she was going to buy that house in 2006-2007.
I bought house No 13,two years ago and couldn’t be happier . The same houses on my road are now selling at €45K more!!!! I got such a bargain , a bigger garden than any of the others and I will never be overlooked as its end of terrace !
After the loss of a child , marriage break up , numerous job losses and house moves I don’t worry about No 13 . I’ve had the worst of things happen and it’s nothing to do with number 13.
It’s called life .
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And yet the property charge is still the same for them?
The very first house I bought many moons ago was number 13. Three years later houses 10, 11 and 12 had pyrite and 13 didn’t. The fear of black cats, walking under ladders, 13 etc, what a load of crap.
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