Via The Transcripts John McDonagh, RFÉ 1 July 2017, alerts listeners to a problem in Donegal over access to the Great Arch on the Fanad Peninsula.
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John: Yes, and then one other topic I wanted to bring up: Anyone that listens to Radio Free Éireann – we know you’re going over this summer and we always push the west of Ireland and to get out of Dublin. And there’s that old saying: What’s the best thing that ever came out of Dublin? And it’s the road out of it!
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| The Great Pollet Sea Arch Source: Donegal Democrat Date: 2 July 2017 |
So if you land in Dublin head to the west of Ireland. I’ve done shows with David McGowan who has a glamping site in South Sligo where he brought in a plane just to bring some publicity to that part of that – Sligo. And then just recently I just got back, I was in Donegal Town, the Reel Bar, r-e-e-l, is voted the most, the best Irish pub in Ireland, in Donegal Town. And one of the reasons I love it is they have a poster of Brian Mór, the founder of Radio Free Éireann, hanging up in the bar. And I would recommend anybody heading to Donegal Town to go to that.
But I’ve been going for the past couple of years to the Fanad Peninsula, to the lighthouse which has just opened there, and one of the other tourists sites there is called the Great Arch. And it’s a bit difficult to get to ’cause you have to go through fields to get down to the beach. But it’s a natural thing that happened – that’s in that part of Donegal. Well an American bought a plot of land there and he has now closed it off because he will not give right-of-way to tourists to go down there and he’s hurting tourism there.
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| Fanad Arch Turnstyle Source: Donegal Daily Date: 22 June 2017 |
And there’s a little turnstile that goes into the field. He has now blocked it up with cement and there’s been protests going on and it’s actually been raised in the Dáil and I want to give people alert: Please still go to the area. They hope to resolve it very shortly. And go to that Fanad Peninsula and Inishowen and the Bloody Foreland up there and go and support the west of Ireland and the Wild Atlantic Way.
(ends time stamp ~13:36)
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The Bloody Foreland, County Donegal
Photo: wildatlanticway.com |
Why do politicians not do what they are supposed to do, say protect our heritage and promote tourism? Good article
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