Irish Boating Updates on Inland Waterways, Rivers, Canals and Holidays
Ireland’s Rivers Are Fragmented, New Project Aims to Remove Barriers
28th November 2016 Inland Waterways
Ireland’s rivers are too fragmented due to human activity according to Inland Fisheries Ireland at the launch of new European project called AMBER which aims to restore river connectivity. The project, which stands for Adaptive Management of Barriers in European…
#InlandWaters - Waterways Ireland has launched its 2017 Heritage in the Community Grants Programme in support of the Waterways Ireland Heritage Plan 2016-2020. The Waterways Ireland Heritage Plan provides, for the first time, a strategic framework for the integration of…
#InlandWaters - The most recent episode of RTÉ One’s Building Ireland looks at the construction of the Victorian-era Eglinton Canal, as Galway Bay FM reports. A commercially successful waterway in its day despite its short length, less than a mile…
The Inland Waterways of Ireland Association President says that the upcoming Seanad Eireann Committee Stage 3 on the Heritage Bill 2016 presents an ideal opportunity for new partnership politics to be demonstrated by the new Partnership Government. In an IWAI…
€500k for Completion of Shannon Blueway Between Leitrim Village & Drumshanbo town
7th November 2016 Inland Waterways
Minister Ring T.D. has awarded €500,000 to Waterways Ireland for the completion of the Shannon Blueway between Leitrim Village and Drumshanbo town. The project will include an iconic boardwalk around the southern side of Acres Lake. The attractive new walkway…
#Pollution - Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has prosecuted cement company Keohane Readymix Limited over a discharge into the Argideen River at Fourcuil in Clonakilty, Co Cork on 9 March last. At a sitting of Clonakilty District Court on Tuesday 18…
Shannon Cruise Firm in €1m Deal for Five New Dutch 'Linssen' Yachts
27th October 2016 Inland Waterways
Cruise-Ireland, Ireland's largest river Shannon Cruise hire charter company is expanding its 115–boat fleet with the addition of five Dutch built boats over the next few seasons. The first of these new steel yachts are already in build and will be…
Waterways Ireland Welcomes Industry Group on Educational Visit to the Shannon Blueway
24th October 2016 Inland Waterways
Waterways Ireland welcomed members of the Destination Fermanagh Industry Group on their recent visit to the Shannon Blueway in Co Leitrim. Private and public sector members of the group visited this latest Waterways Ireland award-winning innovation and met the development…
The inland waterways of Co Kildare comes to life this coming October Bank Holiday weekend. Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (IWAI) Kildare will host it’s now annual Naas Canal Festival from Friday October 28th to Monday 31st. A large fleet…
The salvage and disposal of a number of sunk and abandoned vessels from the Barrow Line of the Grand Canal at Lowtown took place on 12-13 October 2016 by Waterways Ireland. As part of the canals clean up a number…
#InlandWaters - The extension of the Royal Canal Greenway in Westmeath from Coolnahay Harbour to the Longford county boundary was officially opened last week. The new greenway, a 14.4km cycle way, links with the 32.6km already provided along the waterway under…
Free Boat Trips In Meath Thanks To Inland Waterways Association of Ireland Boyne Branch
10th October 2016 Inland Waterways
The Boyne Navigation branch of the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (IWAI) held their annual Open Day on Sunday, 28th August, 2016, to coincide with National Heritage Week. The Open Day was IWAI Boyne Navigation’s biggest event of the year.…
Waterways Ireland Pilots Education & Recreation Project On Lough Erne
6th October 2016 Inland Waterways
#InlandWaters - Waterways Ireland completed the first week of its pilot 'Water Project' for post-primary schools last Friday 30 September. Ninety students and teachers from four second-level schools in Co Fermanagh are engaged in water-based learning activities on Lough Erne…
Waterways Ireland Completes Pilot 'Water Project' for Post-Primary Schools
3rd October 2016 Inland Waterways
Waterways Ireland has successfully completed the first week of an innovative pilot 'Water Project' for post-primary schools on the 30th September 2106. 90 students and teachers from four second level schools in Co Fermanagh engaged in water based learning activities…
#InlandWaters - Waterways Ireland was on hand to welcome Mary McInerney and Jorgen Bjerknes’ new ‘boatel’ on arrival in Enniskillen earlier this week as part of their tour of the Erne System. Based between Carrick-on-Shannon and Enniskillen, the married couple…
Waterways Ireland Wins Heritage Award At World Canals Conference
24th September 2016 Inland Waterways
#InlandWaters - Waterways Ireland has won the Guardian Award at the 2016 World Canals Conference for its Traditional Heritage Boat Survey of the Royal Canal, Grand Canal, Barrow Line Canal and Barrow Navigation. Undertaken as part of the Waterways Ireland…
