Articles tagged with: Ulster Canal

PETER HUGHES “There could be some move afoot to scupper the proposal,” stated Sinn Féin’s Pat Treanor at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council in relation to the restoration of the Ulster Canal. Colr Treanor sounded alarm bells in relation to the Government’s commitment to funding the project – long regarded as a potential flagship tourism development with particular benefits for the Clones area – after correspondence from the Department of Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys TD was circulated to the elected members. The letter spoke of “a complete ...

Monaghan Co Council are to seek a meeting with the relevant government departments north and south in order to progress the regeneration of the Ulster Canal, it was decided at the authority’s May meeting. Correspondence from the Northern Ireland Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure thanked the Co Council for its recent invitation to Minister Carál Ní Chuilín to meet with them and discuss the project. It stated that the Minister was unable to meet the Council and sent her apologies, but she had suggested that an official of her Dept meet ...

THE Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heather Humphreys visited the start of project works on the Ulster Canal on Friday morning last. She viewed the ground investigation work which is being carried out at Derrykerrib Bridge. Speaking about the commencement of the work, Minister Humphreys said,“After so many years of talking, it is great to finally see works underway on the restoration of the Ulster Canal between Lough Erne and Castle Saunderson. After securing approval from the Government for this project earlier this year, I have been very keen to ...

By PATSY McARDLE THE MINISTER for the Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht, local Dail deputy Heather Humphreys announced on Tuesday last she had succeeded in bringing the long awaited cross-border tourism project—the restoration of the old Ulster Canal from Upper Lough Erne to Castle Saunderson on the Cavan/Fermanagh border—a step further towards completion. The restoration of the canal as a tourism attraction is foreseen as having a direct benefit for tourism in the North Monaghan area. Minister Humphreys confirmed she succeeded in securing government approval for the part-restoration of the old waterway. She predicted ...

A motion calling on Minister Phil Hogan to reverse his decision to cease funding to Clones Regeneration Partnership for the employment of the project co-ordinator to continue the ongoing development work by Clones Regeneration Partnership in preparation for the re-opening of the Ulster Canal received the full support of members of Clones Town Council at a meeting on Tuesday evening. Moving the motion Fianna Fáil councillor and member of Clones Regeneration Partnership Deirdre Kelly said that Gerry Darby had done wonderful work to raise the profile of the Ulster ...

By PATSY McARDLE THE importance from an economic viewpoint of the redevelopment of the Old Ulster Canal, especially for the Clones region—and Co. Monaghan generally—was emphasised during last weekend’s North/South Inter-Parliamentary Association meeting in Dublin. Fine Gael representative and Louth Senator, Terry Brennan led a public welcome for plans to redevelop the waterway, saying he hoped to see the long awaited link-up of an All Ireland inland waterway network in the immediate future. Senator Brennan re-echoed views already expressed at other forum—both locally and nationally—by his ...

Monaghan Co Council agreed at its March meeting, on the proposal of Pat Treanor, Brian McKenna seconding, to seek a presentation from Waterways Ireland on the progress to date on the Clones section of the Ulster Canal regeneration project. It was also agreed on Colr Treanor’s proposal to write to the Dept of the Environment in Northern Ireland asking them to expedite the planning application for the development of the Ulster Canal in their jurisdiction. A letter before the members from the office of Minister for Arts, Heritage ...

Comments in relation to the future funding of the Ulster Canal project made by Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan in Clones recently sparked concerns at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. The Council agreed on the proposal of Pat Treanor, Co Mayor Seamus Coyle seconding, to write to Minister Deenihan requesting that he recommit to the necessary funding for the development and to the timescale previously agreed for the project’s delivery. When in Clones the Minister stated that he had been “warned not to ...

CHAIRMAN of Clones Regeneration Partnership, Brian Morgan has urged all Cavan/Monaghan candidates to state their individual and party political position on the Canal proposal. Mr Morgan emphasised the real need to bring something positive out of this election campaign and confirm support for a project which he said will directly benefit the people of Co Monaghan and its adjoining counties. “This is now a time for the candidates to show their worth and create an opportunity for Co Monaghan, which may never be available again in our lifetime”. The ...

Candidates in the Cavan/Monaghan constituency in the forthcoming General Election are urged to make explicit commitments to the realisation of the project to revitalise the Ulster Canal as a flagship project for the stimulation of tourism in the Border region. Brian Cassells, a past President of the Inland Waterways of Ireland, said this week that the region was awaiting “the political champion to step up to the mark and deliver the re-opening of the complete canal”, in order to “complete the missing link in the waterway chain.” Mr ...