{"id":399801,"date":"2026-04-15T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399801\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:40:08","slug":"everyone-was-getting-nervous-failte-ireland-to-fund-fort-dunree-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/399801\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everyone was getting nervous\u2019 &#8211; F\u00e1ilte Ireland to fund Fort Dunree application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>F\u00e1ilte Ireland has agreed to fund the preparation of a new planning application at Fort Dunree following a previous refusal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The update comes following extensive engagement between Donegal County Council and Failte Ireland. The approval to resubmit the planning application was received.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/search?q=Fort+Dunree&amp;idcanale=6&amp;idcanalericerca=6&amp;sortElement=data_pubblicazione,true&amp;page=1&amp;sortDefault=false\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Dunree<\/a> Project aims to transform the Fort Dunree Visitor Experience by redeveloping the low fort, the top fort, and the village. Additionally, to provide new public spaces and new cliff walkways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At present, Donegal County Council and F\u00e1ilte Ireland are the main bodies funding the upgrade works. The current cost estimate is \u20ac22,000,000, and the funding awarded to date is \u20ac12,471,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of November 2025, planning consent had been refused and the design review was ongoing. Now in April 2026, the project has progressed and the design team have updated the design and planning documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted with this update on Fort Dunree,\u201d Fianna F\u00e1il Councillor Fion\u00e1n Bradley said. \u201cEveryone was getting nervous. I\u2019m just wondering now, Failte will fund the application, but will they fund the project?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Brendan O&#8217;Donnell, Senior Engineer at Donegal County Council, responded that there has been a strong commitment from F\u00e1ilte Ireland and several meetings have taken place. However, there is no guarantee that Failte Ireland will fund the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Funded by the Local Democracy Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"F\u00e1ilte Ireland has agreed to fund the preparation of a new planning application at Fort Dunree following a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1485,30206,15148,60372,61,5969,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-399801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-donegal","9":"tag-donegal-county-council","10":"tag-failte-ireland","11":"tag-fort-dunree","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-inishowen","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}