Shannon Water for Dublin?

Logic would suggest that a country of this size should not have virtually all development in one place. Especially when that place is overdeveloped no matter what international size suggests i.e. we are not China. Dublin suffers from traffic problems, housing shortages, crime, airport issues (taken from Shannon) and now water shortages. Not to mention that it is susceptible to ocean level rises. The sensible course of action from economic, environmental and balanced development point of view is to move new developments away from Dublin, Athlone is only an hour away with all the water you could want!

No amount of name calling can get away from these facts.

For those who won't click on the link this is what IT's Frank McDonald is saying

"Dublin is now so congested that this is having damaging effects on it," he said.

"[There are] escalating land prices and house prices, traffic congestion and pollution and so on.

"Really the continued growth of Dublin is not in the interest of Dubliners".

He said the over-concentration of economic activity in the capital -
as well as "laissez-faire" spatial planning - means "this will severely
inhibit any prospect of the four smaller cities acquiring a critical
mass to become the economic engines of their own regions."

'M50 bypass'

Mr McDonald said as more and more people commute to Dublin, an M50 bypass may need to be built.

"The M50 is now the most heavily used road in the country, carrying up to 145,000 vehicles a day" he said.

"If Dublin continues to grow unchecked, we'll have to build an outer-orbital motorway - essentially an M50 bypass - to deal with all of the congestion that's being created by commuter land".

I believe that a pipeline from the Shannon would be a big mistake similar to the Children's hospital. 14 years being built and still no idea when it will be finished. Built in the wrong place and a total fiasco. Don't repeat this again.

Well the Canal once was and could be used again if the pollution was cleaned up and treated. Recently Guinness (article of 15 years ago) used filtered Grand Canal water for washing etc.

Makes more sense that building a huge pipeline.

You are seeing it from a Dublin point of view only. Expand Dublin? I say no it's big enough as is and Athlone has no need of this water source.

You might be taking it a bit far?

' I propose taking some of the pipe line budget and hiring roiving
bands of hurl Weelding men beating people up, on top of that we cut the
electricity into the city by half and permanent road works on the M1/4/7
and 11 inbound with only the hard shoulder open with a speed limit of
30kph. Unfortunatelywe are not able to cut the existinging water supply
and we may need to carry out an environmental impact study before we
mine the shipping lane into the port.

Obviously the dire situation
that is Dublin right now is not deterring people from wanting to live
there so we must up the anti to show them the errors of their ways and
how awfull a place it really is. We can then house all the economic
migrants from the hell scape in mega city1 sorry Athlone 2, the wet sock
boogaloo. Once it has cleared the An bord planala review.'

Not from Dublin myself even though I was born there and lived in the central city for many years.

Of course I'm against it as will be most of Ireland. The environmental impact people will also be. It's just crazy like something from China or some mad dictatorship.

It would be fought as it's a mad idea and may be considered a joke.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30842708.html

'Apart from some spur pipes that may be added for future possible use in supplying some Midland communities, the idea is there would be no further interruption in the flow until the water reaches Dublin.

It would arrive at a reservoir to be built at Peamount on the edge of south Co Dublin and from there would run through
pipes that would be integrated with the existing water supply network
serving the Greater Dublin area.

That all sounds straightforward but the reality on the ground would be very different.
Aside from the human opposition, the landscape throws up considerable challenges.

The pipeline route — chosen, according to Irish Water, to minimise obstacles and disruption — will nonetheless
encounter railway lines, a canal, and a major river. Ironically it’s theRiver Liffey, smaller rivers and streams, a motorway, national primary routes, many local roads, and the properties of 500 individual landowners.

It would have to negotiate a wide variety of ground, from road fill to farmland to bogland to the saturated ground
beneath rivers. It would lie in trenches up to 4m deep to ensure stability and protection while at the same time enabling the infrastructure to be accessed reasonably easily if needed for repair.

Landowners would be asked to give up a 50m strip of their property during the
construction period — possibly for three years — and then to agree to a
permanent wayleave of 20m.

The route, and various parts of it, have been altered many times already but while the 500 landowners
who could most expect to be affected have been notified, there is a
chance some more modifications could be made.

Irish Water said: “We will continue to consider requests [for changes] right up to the planning stage.”

Remember this is the Irish Water that has such a good track record! This project would cost multiples of the cost quoted and be tied up in legal wrangles for decades.