Swimming project is 'long-term'

Swimming in the Liffey and (inset) Tony Gahan.

The project to provide a dedicated swimming area for Kilcullen will be long-term before it comes to fruition, the July meeting of KCA heard, writes Brian Byrne. "We're at the bottom rung of the ladder and can only keep climbing," project leader Tony Gahan said.

He noted that, following representations from Cllr Tracey O'Dwyer, Kildare County Council had already appointed an assessor to report on the Liffey areas where such an area might be located. He said the consultant had been in touch with him, but he expressed concern at the meeting that the survey was being carried out just upstream of the bridge. 

Near the bridge is 'too shallow'.

"That's too shallow for swimming," he pointed out. He added that there were lots of steps and 'hoops to go through' in progressing the project, even though traditional swimming places at what's now the Riverside estate and New Abbey across from there had been used for eighty-plus years.

"We're just going to have to soldier on, and it's my intention to keep at it.”

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