{"id":48031,"date":"2025-09-28T03:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48031\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:42:20","slug":"extension-on-limerick-greenway-thrown-into-doubt-over-funding-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/48031\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension on Limerick Greenway thrown into doubt over funding issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE PROPOSED <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/231\/planning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">extension<\/a> of the Limerick Greenway into the city centre has been thrown into doubt.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after Limerick City and County Council confirmed the funding for the project is under review.<\/p>\n<p>The local authority added: \u201cThe 2026 funding from the Department of Transport is currently unknown and the indications are that funding for greenways in 2026 will be limited\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/arts---entertainment\/1901729\/torch-players-to-present-gripping-modern-drama-in-limerick-s-belltable-theatre.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Torch Players to present &#8216;gripping modern drama&#8217; in Limerick&#8217;s Belltable theatre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The information came to light at this month\u2019s metropolitan meeting, following a question by Patrickswell councillor Dan McSweeney, Fine Gael.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Fitzgerald, a senior engineer at the Mid-West national roads design officer, wrote: \u201cThis is a very disappointing development. However, Limerick City and County Council are in a position to keep the procurement process open until the end of 2025 and we will continue to liaise with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) and the mayor\u2019s office in an effort to secure funding to facilitate an award of contract prior to the tender acceptance period expiring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cllr McSweeney said the news is \u201cextremely disappointing\u201d and accused TII of being \u201cshort-sighted\u201d to not approve consultants for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposed extension from Rathkeale to Limerick city was building on the success of the existing Limerick Greenway and would have had significant benefit for Patrickswell and the wider Limerick City West area,\u201d he added.<\/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":"THE PROPOSED extension of the Limerick Greenway into the city centre has been thrown into doubt. It comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,1396,35066,43,13810],"class_list":{"0":"post-48031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-limerick","11":"tag-limerick-greenway","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-patrickswell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48031","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=48031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}