Shannon Water for Dublin?

What nonsense. Complete and utter nonsense.

The smaller a country is, the fewer centres of development it can support. Ireland is a small country and already has several cities, it doesn't need another one. Remember when FF turned a sensible national spatial strategy into "one for everyone in the audience" and doomed it to failure?

Dublin Airport has loads of spare capacity, it's just not currently allowed to use it due to an idiotic council decision that will soon be reversed.

The idea that Megacity One Athlone would be free from crime and traffic congestion is laughable. It'll have Irish people in it. Most of them will want to drive everywhere and a good proportion of them will be scumbags.

The only reason anyone would suggest such an insane idea is that they're either taking the complete mick or stand to profit personally from it. Decentralisation all over again, just a process to turn taxpayers' money into FF votes, that worked out great 🙄

Frank McDonald? The guy who opposed Luas, opposes Metro but wanted to build a cable car along the Liffey? Riiight. He's well known as a complete crank.

You're on about expense and claiming that Shannon Water to Dublin will benefit nobody. I've debunked that and named all the areas this would benefit. A comparable solution would be desalination, mentioned in the thread, but the expense is outrageous compared to the Shannon project.

This thread is about Shannon Water to Dublin you're railroading the thread in to decentralisation and your general pathological hatred for Dublin, Dubliners and all things to do with the Capital. You must have thousands of posts on boards.ie putting down the city and it's people. A search with your name and Dublin in the subject is a real eye opener.

Do you understand what feeds canals and how they work?

The main water supply for the canal is Lough Owel near Mullingar which is fed by the small River Brosna. Do you think that's sustainable? The Royal Canal is a man-made waterway linking the River Liffey at Dublin to the River Shannon near Tarmonbarry. There is a branch line from Kilashee to Longford Town. Do you suggest a pump from there? How do you get the water through the locks at the speed it's needed for Meath, Wicklow, Dublin, Kildare, Newport, Killaloe, Dunkerrin, Moneygall, Borrisokane and Mullingar?

Yes, the thread is about Water, it's called Shannon Water for Dublin and it's in over a millions peoples interest. You don't have to say you hate Dublin, it's obvious, just look at your post history.

I am beginning to see things from the OPS POV We need to make dublin smaller. 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.

and where does the water in a canal comes from? Think…

What are these "many other option too much more suitable" options? Other than your amazingly ridiculous and expensive idea of taking it from the Shannon via canals.

But your poll says people are in agreement with it.

So, it's water to Dublin from the Shannon via canals then?