LIMERICK’S two Minister’s Patrick O’Donovan TD and Niall Collins TD took to the new Limerick Greenway this week to mark the completion of over €5million worth of Government investment in the project.
The Greenway will open to the public in early July, with the two local Minister’s being delegated by Minister Heather Humphreys TD to officially open the Greenway, later in September.
Minister Patrick O’Donovan said that he was delighted to see the work completed on the Greenway. “This is a huge investment by the Government here in Co. Limerick and will form part of a much bigger Greenway that will link Limerick through to Kerry and on to sea at Fenit. It will be a massive local amenity and a tourism attraction here in the area. Having secured the completion of major parts of the Old Railway like the Station Houses at Barnagh, and Ardagh, the Tunnel at Barnagh and the Viaduct at Garryduff, with Government funding, it has made the Greenway a major piece of infrastructure here in Limerick.”
Minister Niall Collins TD said “This facility and attraction is of a quality and scale similar to Irelands well known greenways in Waterford known locally as Déise Greenway and in Mayo The Great Western Greenway.
It will, apart from being a significant resource for people here locally in West Limerick, it will also serve as a significant driver in attracting and harnessing tourism potential for West Limerick. As well as linking to North Kerry there is also plans afoot to link the Limerick Green Way to Limerick City up into East Clare and Killaloe.
For my own part as a local minister I was glad to be involved in delivering this significant investment into the heart of rural West Limerick”.
Both Ministers committed themselves to working to further developing the Greenway in Limerick and to enhancing the offering of the amenity into the future.
They both pointed out that without the already allocated €5million from Government the project would not have been able to reach its current level and they were confident that further funding could be achieved from the Government in the future.
