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There can be no justification for ripping up the railway and replacing it with a bicycle track. I am supportive of greenways but it must be pointed out that there are enough alternative routes to build a greenway/bicycle track between Collooney and Charlestown without interfering with the existing rail infrastructure, the Mayor of Sligo, Cllr Declan Bree, said, when he addressed members of the Western Inter-County Railway Committee at a Mayoral Reception in Sligo City Hall.
It was 130 years ago. New Year’s Day, 1894, and Charles Mann was perched in the reporters’ gallery, jotting down the latest intel on the unfolding start to a new term. As court officers and lawmakers busily prepared for the dawn of the 115th General Court, and Gov. Frederic Greenhalge prepared to give his inaugural address, Mann was launching a new enterprise.
Sir Ibrahim Rahimtoola lobbied for greater fiscal autonomy for India in the Raj years. Sir Purshottamdas Thakurdas resigned from the Legislative Assembly to protest differential duties on British and non-British cotton goods, and co-founded FICCI along with G.D. Birla.
The Chief Executive of Ireland West Airport Knock, Joe Gilmore has told members of the Western Inter-County Railway Committee, that the development of good road and rail connections on the north-south axis from Donegal to the regional capital of Galway will be critically important for the future growth of the airport.