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Lock gates over docks now closed to public!

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  • 07-11-2014 10:47am
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    Boardnashea
    Registered Users Posts: 858 ✭✭✭


    It has been getting increasingly difficult to cross the lock gate over the docks, from the Long Walk to Galway Bay Seafoods.
    Could this route be a public Right of Way? I have certainly been using it for the past 15 years. It is now gated off on all sides with more restrictions recently around area where scrap steel is dumped before being loaded on ships.


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    Notch000
    Registered Users Posts: 1,472 ✭✭✭Notch000


    thme gats have been up for awhile now, but good point about the right of way, might be worth taking it up with the powers that be
    Some drunk student probably cut there finger climbing on the scrap metal and the EH&S crowd jumped all over it


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    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    OP, you may find that the closure has something to do with the Galway Harbour expansion plans.

    http://www.galwayharbourextension.com/

    Or maybe not.

    You could try asking them directly: <all numbers by PM>

    http://www.galwayharbour.com

    Please let us know what they say.


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    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users Posts: 25,957 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    That scrap heap is a major health and safety risk: hard to believe that public access to it wasn't restricted long ago. If someone climbed on it, it would be a lot more than a finger that they'd cut.

    Legal situation or not, a working port is no place for a public right of way. If you want to go from one side to the other, walk around it.


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