{"id":2207,"date":"2026-10-25T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2026-10-25T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:11:00","slug":"a-dangerous-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/a-dangerous-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"A dangerous precedent ;)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I remain of the view that once a greenway, never a railway, in relation to the conversion of closed railway lines to greenways. As such I am concerned by the recent about turn by Irish Rail in relation to a greenway on the Burma Road (the closed railway from Claremorris to Collooney). What concerns me further are comments from Irish Rail that the issue is &#8220;out of their hands&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hang on a moment, every time someone raises a suggestion that the Government force (insert name of State body) to do something, where the Government (temporary or permanent) doesn&#8217;t want to do that thing, they use the weasel worded response to the effect of &#8220;(Insert thing) is an operational matter for (insert name of State body).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oceanfm.ie\/news\/sligo-greenway-prioritisation-out-of-our-hands-says-irish-rail-executive-1510917\">here we have the CEO of a commercial State body implying that the Government can actually order Government owned organisations to do things against their will<\/a>? This could be a very dangerous precedent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remain of the view that once a greenway, never a railway, in relation to the conversion of closed railway lines to greenways. As such I am concerned by the recent about turn by Irish Rail in relation to a greenway on the Burma Road (the closed railway from Claremorris to Collooney). What concerns me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207"}],"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=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}