The County Donegal Railway Museum are holding the above titled event – a talk about the former railways of Strabane and a book launch of a book of the same title.
The event is on 26th March 2025 at 19:00 in the Alley Theatre, Strabane, Co. Tyrone. The event is free, but pre-booking is required and can be done here.
I recently posted about the GoFundMe campaign for Elphin Windmill, to raise funds for repair to the damaged sails, caused by Storm Eowyn.
Today, I put my money where my mouth is and donated EUR2,000 to the campaign.
It has finally happened – the long talked about memorial to the female shirt factory workers in Derry has been unveiled.
The Derry Journal reports that representatives of former shirt factory workers were given the honour of unwrapping the memorial in an area beside the Guildhall in Derry City.
Dublin City Council are hosting the above titled talk on 23 April 2025 at 18:00 in the Mansion House in Dublin.
The event is free but registration is required and can be done here.
Heading back to Dublin after another greenway visit – this time, the Tralee to Fenit greenway.
Similar to the Midleton to Youghal Greenway, there are multiple sections where a deviation off the route of the former railway is required due to possession of the former trackbed by others.
As with the Youghal line, this railway had not been abandoned and the question must arise, who took their eyes off the ball in either allowing advserse possession of the line to take place, or worse, who in CIE sold the trackbed of a non-abandoned railway?
The RTE archive has a piece on the opening of 4 new stations on the Maynooth Line in 1990 (Broombridge, Castleknock, Coolmine and Leixlip Confey).
The blurb contains many errors, including:
Referring to the service as “A new Dublin suburban rail line”. The Maynooth Line service actually started in 1981.
Stated that the original railway along which the service ran dates back back to the 1870s. The line actually opened in 1847.
Stated the railway was originally known as the “Great Midland and Western Railway”. No. The railway was originally built/owned by the Midland Great Western Railway.
The above titled talk is a photographic journey on the waterways around Newry, which takes place on 22nd March 2025 at 14:00 in Newry & Mourne Museum in Newry. Tickets can be obtained here and cost £2.50.
A GoFundMe campaign to facilitate the repair of the damage caused to Elphin Windmill during Storm Eowyn has been setup and can be accessed here.
Per the Belfast Telegraph, the on off saga of the Commissioners of Irish Lights proposals to modernise the lighting arrangements in St. John’s Point Lighthouse in Co. Down continues, with local residents objecting to the replacement of the fundamentally unsafe mercury based rotation mechanism and light with LED lights and a ball bearing based rotation mechanism, citing a range of spurious arguments against this.
There are many examples of former lighthouse lights preserved as static exhibits in adjacent (and non adjacent) areas and I would suggest that if the local community wish to have a known toxin in their community, they should be facilitated to have the mechanism preserved at a site in the community in the community/council ownership, with all the associated civil liability for same on the community/council if the mercury leaks.
Armaghi.com reports on a refusal to grant planning permission to convert a former reservoir in Banbridge into a house.
The applicant had sought to construct a new build house above ground and incorporate the former reservoir into the structure as a basement.