Feighan welcomes €100k funding for North Roscommon

Fine Gael TD Frank Feighan has welcomed an announcement by Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan confirming that the National Transport Authority (NTA) has allocated funds to Ireland’s local authorities with a view to spending €290 million on walking and cycling infrastructure in 2023. Under the scheme Ro- scommon County Council have received an allocation of €2.5m for 20 projects across the county. The overall investment will fund approximately 1,200 Active Travel projects nationwide.

Deputy Feighan highlighted some of the key investments for his part of the Sligo/Leitrim/North Roscommon/South Don- egal constituency. They include the Cootehall Footpath link which has been allocated €20,000, the inter-urban Greyway pilot (Drumsna and Jamestown, Leitrim via L3656, Roscommon) which received €25,000, Scoil na Ainegeal on Naofa Carrick Road in Boyle which got €10,000, St Michael’s and St Patrick’s NS in Cootehall which received €15,000, and Scoil Naisiunta Cruachain, which has been allocated €25,000.

“I am thrilled that many of the ‘gaps’ in our footpath and cycleway infrastructure will be dealt with by this funding”, commented Deputy Feighan.

“I want to thank Roscommon County Council staff and officials for including these projects in their submission to the departments headed by Ministers Ryan and (Jack) Chambers”.