Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 January 2024
Committee on Public Petitions
Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion
Ms Bernice Brennan:
I would make one quick point. Deputy Martin Kenny mentioned Knock airport - one of the best things that ever happened. Where I live, it is a 15 or 20 minutes' drive to Knock airport. I live in a town in which, as Mr. Cunniffe said, the two banks are gone in the past few years. The town is going down and this asset is there. People go over to Westport. They bring their bikes on the backs of their cars and they say that this is fantastic. They ask why they cannot have that in east Mayo. That is west Mayo. They just want a bite of the cherry. We want what everyone else has.