Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 April 2024

Committee on Public Petitions

Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Barry Kenny:

The rail infrastructure such as is there is not really of any value to a future reopening. It has been disused for so long that ultimately we would be talking about a completely new rail track, bed, rails, sleepers and everything. That there is some older infrastructure is not an enormous benefit really. One would be starting over, as it were. There is just the land and the alignment.