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18th January 2013

Grand Canal Walk: Five Locks & Five Bridges

#GrandCanalWalk – A guided walking tour along the Grand Canal (Circular Line) tomorrow, will be led by Mick Kinahan of the Dublin Branch of the IWAI, as part of the Corrib Branch Dublin Weekend.

The walk titled ""Five Bridges & Five Locks" will start at the Mespil Hotel, Mespil Road, Dublin 4 at 11 a.m. and will take approx. 90 minutes to complete. The walk finishes at the Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre in the Grand Canal Dock.

Waterways Ireland are kindly providing refreshments and all are welcome to the walk which is admission free. For further inquiries contact: 087 23 71 719 or [email protected] In addition for details about the Corrib branch of the IWAI visit: http://corrib2.iwai.ie/

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago