In 1994, in his capacity as Minister for Enterprise & Employment, Ruairi Quinn introduced the May bank holiday in the Republic of Ireland, to take place on the 1st Monday in May each year.
As a result of this, I was able to spend yesterday and today photographing the railway lines from Collooney to Claremorris (yesterday) and Claremorris to Athenry today.
In the case of latter, in addition to re-photographing the stations, I also visited most publicly accessible bridges and level crossings, the reason being that the noise around the potential restoration of all (Athenry to Claremorris) or part of this line (Athenry to Tuam) is getting louder.
As such, these photographs will form a record of the line before any such restoration takes place.
With 200 images taken over the 2 days, it will take me a while to process and upload these to the site.