Michael Comiskey (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the good news that €30,000 has been allocated to Leitrim County Council to have a look at the old railway line that runs from Sligo through Leitrim and Cavan into Northern Ireland, with the prospect of opening up a greenway. This would be a great boost for jobs in the area in its construction and in tourism enterprise. The fact that it runs close to the original Rainbow Ballroom of Romance, which I spoke about on a number of occasions, and close to the original cottage of the late Seán Mac Diarmada, one of the seven signatories to the 1916 Proclamation, means it would be great to have it all linked. It would create an amazing tourism industry across Sligo, Leitrim and Cavan and onto Enniskillen. It is appropriate that the funding comes now that the G8 meeting is taking place in Enniskillen.