Ireland's Greenways, Blueways and Bridleways

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Thanks bud. I’m wearing my Friday fashion thread clothes

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I didn’t know Rolf Harris was even still alive, much less knocking about County Louth.

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Rolf is still alive mate. Many’s the man left prison and shacked up in Louth

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St. Declan’s way between Cashel and Ardmore Co. Waterford becoming popular. At over 100KM depending on route taken, it’s a nice little haul.

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Mary McAleese took Leo Varadkar for a stroll on a stretch of it on one of those programs she did. Not a bad show. You’ll probably find it on the RTÉ player.

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Blueways and Bridleways now. Get with the project…

https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2021/1129/1263771-more-than-15m-for-outdoor-adventure-projects/

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https://www.bluewaysireland.org/

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Dave Mathieson on Twitter: “@ccferrie @IrishCycle No offence to Gort, Portumna etc which are great places that should absolutely be reachable by bike, but going from Galway to Athlone via those places adds at least 60km to the journey. https://t.co/DuPhUwo1cb” / Twitter

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Details of preferred route corridor for Athlone - Galway Greenway emerge - Galway Bay FM

@Ambrose_McNulty @KinvarasPassion @padjo @anon67715551

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Surely the point of a greenway is amenity and the more of an amenity the better. If you wanted to get to Galway to Athlone in the fastest time on a bike you’d go on a road.

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do both is the obvious answer to this,

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@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy 12/06/21 : We need more people to use rail instead of cars

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy 07/12/21: Lets turn all the train tracks into Greenways

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Paint a cycle lane on the old national primary route from Galway to Athlone and it would be grand.

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and set the price of the trains so that it’s more expensive than driving.

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the cagers nicely riled up

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SEGREGATED lanes only mate

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That box was ticked a long long time ago…

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@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy. Will be about 35km I would say by the end

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This must be true of a fair few roads at this stage. I was driving the old N7 there a few months back and was thinking there’d be a grand greenway from Limerick to Killaloe along the extremely generous hard shoulder on the road to Birdhill, albeit the stretch to Ballina would need some figuring out (there was a railway to Ballina before, but that’s long gone). Would be more interesting than cycling from Rathkeale to NCW anyways.

As it happens they’re planning a (world class, of course) greenway along the Errina Canal and on to Scariff anyways.

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There’s already one running in parallel to the N7 from Limerick to Killaloe, mostly along the banks of the Shannon. The Lough Derg Way.

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