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Keeping Ireland closed to walkers

Banjoxed · 2015-01-24 09:34:14

Interesting letter in today's Irish Times regarding Ireland's lack of access to the countryside. Even with high profile schemes such as long distance paths, it is a sobering thought that we have less walking routes than one English county.…

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24-01-2015 10:34am

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Interesting letter in today's Irish Times regarding Ireland's lack of access to the countryside. Even with high profile schemes such as long distance paths, it is a sobering thought that we have less walking routes than one English county.

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/walkers-tourism-and-rural-life-1.2077541#.VMNiLHMfJ28.twitter

Wasn't the Leader II scheme supposed to address this? Instead it got scuppered. This would have delivered far more tourism than any existing scheme, and over a far broader stretch of the Republic than any A to B fixed route.

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