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Tributes Paid On Death Of Royal Canal Campaigner Ian Bath
Shannonside FM reports that veteran inland waterways campaigner Dr Ian Bath has died aged 90.
Beginning in the 1970s, Dr Bath led the charge to revive the Royal Canal between Dublin and the River Shannon as a tourism amenity.
Through the efforts of Dr Bath and other volunteers in the Royal Canal Amenity Group, 74km of the waterway between Blanchardstown and Mullingar were reopened to navigation by 1990.
And another 20 years on, in October 2010, some months after Dr Bath’s history of the canal with Ruth Delany was published, the full length of the canal from the Shannon to the Liffey was officially reopened — an achievement for which Dr Bath was recognised with Afloat’s Sailor of the Month award for December 2010.
Shannonside FM has more on the story HERE.
Ian Bath is the Irish Independent/Afloat.ie Sailor of the Month for December
