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New scenic walkway for Carndonagh 11.02.10
A ROUTE has been
identified in Carndonagh for a new scenic walkway
around the historic north Inishowen town, it's
emerged.
Carndonagh Community and Rural Development Company (CCRDC)
aims to develop the Slí na Slainte walkway in
association with the Irish Heart Foundation while
the preferred route has already been agreed with
Donegal County Council.
It is now hoped funding for the venture will be
secured from the Leader programme through Inishowen
Development Partnership.
Details of the walkway were highlighted at the first
meeting in 2010 of the Carndonagh Community and
Rural Development Company. The group also welcomed
the fact that a Carndonagh Town Plan was in the
pipeline, after years of local lobbying. |
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Other topics covered at
the meeting included the "marked deterioration in
the cleanliness of the streets of Carndonagh" since
the retirement of the local council employee with
this responsibility.
The group said there had been numerous complaints
from members of the public and the group now plans
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Donegal County Council
as a matter of urgency.
They said illegal dumping and backyard burning had
increased around Carndonagh since the imposition of
charges at the local recycling centre last year.
They called on the Council to urgently review its
strategy on dumping, recycling and charging.
Meanwhile, CCRDC chairperson Raymond Doherty told
the meeting he was outraged at recent revelations
that the IDA in the North West was only
concentrating on marketing Letterkenny and Sligo for
inward investment.
"We are not expecting major investment projects. We
are looking for any kind of projects. We need the
IDA to be promoting Inishowen out in the market
place. Inishowen is now the blackest spot in Ireland
for unemployment," said Mr Doherty.
"The people of Inishowen are contributing to the
cost of running this organisation yet we are not
even considered worthy of being promoted. I am
disappointed in our local representatives from the
six councillors and the three TDs right up to the
Tanaiste Mary Coughlan’s Department of Enterprise,
Trade and Employment who are allowing this to
happen," added Mr Doherty. |
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