*Contracts for the design of the 42km Limerick to Scariff Greenway were signed in June 2021. AN EAST CLARE greenway is “well behind schedule” with elected members worried about how quiet the project has gone.
*Lough Derg as visible from the hills of East Clare. A PREFERRED route for the Limerick to Scariff Greenway will be finalised in May.
*Photograph: John Mangan THREE issues need to be dealt with at Mountshannon Harbour according to local representative, Cllr Pat Burke (FG).
Stories of emigrant settlements in the USA, stories of life in a conflicted Northern Ireland, the Aughty Rainforest in the time Brian Boru, are topics of talks to be given during Scariff Harbour Festival over the upcoming Bank Holiday weekend.
*Taoiseach Leo Varadkar (FG). Photograph: Brian Arthur AN INTERVENTION FROM THE Taoiseach into “an ongoing impasse” at a section of an identified route for the Lough Derg Greenway project has been sought.
CALLS FOR “a major clean up and facelift” of Killaloe town’s lower end and its bridge crossing the border into Tipperary has been sought.
Scariff Harbour Festival Commitee Members Harry O’Meara, Karina O’Brien and Mike Rodgers. Photograph: Natasha Barton POLITICAL SUCCESS of the Alliance Party will be among the talking points at the Waterways Ireland Scariff Harbour Festival which returns at the end of July.
Lough Derg is viewed as central to rebalancing the tourism offering within Co Clare.
Possessing the beauty of the Wild Atlantic Way and Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands will add to the prestige of the Shannon Greenway when it is completed.
Repositioning the River Shannon as “a key tourism destination” has been detailed as a fundamental aim of the Shannon Tourism Masterplan.
