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Some crowd called ArmaghElectrical.com (who?) have called for NI Water to be privatised. Obviously the last few days of excellent weather saw the silly seaon make a brief appearance - slow news day and all that.

There is one problem with this - Lough Neagh. Source of water for a considerable proportion of the population of Northern Ireland, it is the ancestral property of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Royal prerogative allows water to be taken from the lake without payment. However, were NI Water to be a private company, this would no longer apply.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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I have updated the IH Wiki to take account of the renaming of Bridge End Station to Titanic Quarter. Still, it eases the confusion with the former station in Donegal of the same name.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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Bullshit.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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Otherwise known as the Clones Waterways and Canal Conference. I have saved my readers wasting a day of their time by not giving the oxygen of publicity to this event until after it has happened.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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They say the first item on the agenda for any organisation in Ireland is the split. This is not an accurate reflection of the IWAI as a whole, however, the decision by the IWAI Executive to terminate the email based waterways discussion group (which allowed IWAI members and non members alike) with 48 hours notice sparked an intense debate on the list in its dying hours. As a result, a new waterways discussion group - Inland Waterways of Ireland Users Group (IWIUG) - has been created on Yahoo.*

Many years ago, I let my membership of the IWAI lapse due to the unbridled arrogance of the IWAI executive. I had attended the AGM of the association in Maynooth and witnessed open and hostile invective directed at members of the association by the top table. This, along with the decision to appropriate the majority of the subscriptions to a central fund to pay a consultancy fee to a past president to stuff envelopes led to me deciding to no longer support the association.

It is likely that this latest move by the association will see further members leave.

* I am not associated in any way with the creation of the new group - I have joined it as a member. The comments and statements in this post are mine and mine alone and are not connected with the IWIUG.

Days Hotel Belfast - located in a lovely area of Belfast where the Union Jack flies from every lamppost and the kerbstones are painted blue white and red.

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