Go Ahead to dredge Dunmore East Harbour

Issued : Monday 24 March, 2014

The allocation of  €4,688,000  from the Department of  Agriculture, Food and the Marine for dredging the Harbour in Dunmore East and for repairing piers  damaged in the winter storms is great news.

The Harbour at Dunmore East badly needs to be dredged and there’s also been a figure of €220,000 approved for extending the Harbour Building. That will be most welcome and will help generate some work locally for the building trade.

The build-up of silt meant that larger vessels were finding it difficult to get into the harbour, so this work will resolve that. It’s good news for commercial fishing vessels. The dredging of the harbour has been an issue that was raised very strongly in the last general election and Ciara Conway T.D. has been pushing at national level to have the work done as a matter of urgency.