{"id":212,"date":"2021-04-28T14:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2021-05-02T14:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T13:12:39","slug":"down-the-rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2021\/04\/28\/down-the-rabbit-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Down the rabbit hole"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I give up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As if the madness around a virus with an IFR of 0.15% (i.e. 99.85% of people who get this virus don&#8217;t die) wasn&#8217;t bad enough, the Irish Government (which is borrowing billions to pay people to not work who should be working and paying people to work (public servants) who shouldn&#8217;t be working) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ie\/en\/press-release\/efcb7-taoiseach-minister-humphreys-announce-12m-for-ulster-canal\/\">intends to spaff some more money on the dead horse that is the Ulster Canal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to read the press release many times to understand what is being funded (it is a very clever spinning of words which looks like it is promising a lot but is actually delivering the sum total of sweet fuck all) and all it is is an open air swimming pool in Clones, which they have mislabeled as a marina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this stage, I almost wish that there was a deadly virus that was wiping out the world&#8217;s population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edit 02\/05\/2021: Below is a map of the area and canal I prepared many years ago, which I have updated by highlighting the section of canal to be &#8220;restored&#8221; in continuous dark blue.  This will be a disjointed section from nowhere to nowhere.  The dotted blue either side is the derelict canal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"845\" height=\"634\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Wattlebridge-to-Clones-edited-1.png\" alt=\"Ulster Canal Map\nClones to Wattlebridge\" class=\"wp-image-227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Wattlebridge-to-Clones-edited-1.png 845w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Wattlebridge-to-Clones-edited-1-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Wattlebridge-to-Clones-edited-1-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 845px) 100vw, 845px\" \/><figcaption>Ulster Canal Map &#8211; Clones to Wattlebridge. Copyright Ewan Duffy 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I give up. As if the madness around a virus with an IFR of 0.15% (i.e. 99.85% of people who get this virus don&#8217;t die) wasn&#8217;t bad enough, the Irish Government (which is borrowing billions to pay people to not work who should be working and paying people to work (public servants) who shouldn&#8217;t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}