Petition updateCreate a walking and cycling greenway on the closed railway from Sligo to AthenryOver 6,400 signatures and the “Western People” calls us all “Misguided”
Western Rail Trail
Feb 26, 2018
Many thanks for the continued and growing support for our campaign, remember keep sharing and asking others to sign, if we all bring in one recruit this week we can double our numbers in seven days!
Anyway here is news for you all; we are all “misguided” All 6,400 of us!!!! On February 12th a Western People editorial described our campaign as “misguided”; the Newspaper editor seems to be living in some kind of time warped dreamworld in which he still believes the Germans are going to pay for a train line from Athenry to Collooney. This is what the Western People said about our greenway idea in the editorial last week “ It will, at best, create a small number of jobs in the tourism sector, but the damage it will do - both directly and indirectly - would be immense.”
Clearly the editor of the Western People has not seen what is happening in Waterford, where the Waterford Greenway has reinvented tourism and is oblivious to what is happening on his own doorstep in Westport with the Great Western Greenway. If you want to let him know what you think of his editorial of February 12th then drop him a line to james.laffey@westernpeople.ie blind copy it to me at sligomayogreenway@gmail.com so we can stay abreast of what you are saying. Many thanks. So keep sharing, give us a little boost if you can but above all let others know, that way we keep growing! Brendan
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