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Ciarán Ferrie

Last Thursday, the Irish Times published an article painting a picture of local division around proposed plans for the Dodder Greenway through Milltown.

it was a complete fabrication.

Kevin Dennehy, chair of the Dodder Action group sets the record straight on today's letters page. The proposed route, skirting the perimeter of Milltown Golf Club practice putting green is supported by walkers, cyclers, anglers and environmentalists.

irishtimes.com/opinion/letters

Sir, – Further to your article “Finding a greenway through Dublin’s southside” on proposals to link the Dodder linear parks of Milltown and Dartry, the route proposed by Eamon Ryan at a recent meeting outlined two main alternative routes. One, currently favoured by Dublin City Council planners, would run over the Packhorse Bridge, onto Milltown Road and down the hill to Dartry Park; the other, through the practice green of Milltown Golf Club and across the existing bridge at the old dyeworks, would be much less precipitous and therefore more navigable for our less able-bodied citizens. This is the route which the community volunteer group Dodder Action identified as the best at least six years ago. Contrary to your report, there are no plans to restrict either pedestrians or cyclists to one or the other side of the river; rather there are plans that cyclists would be more facilitated on one side, not the other, between Classon’s Bridge and Clonskeagh Bridge. That there is a plan for a Dodder Greenway is hardly news. The stretch in south Co Dublin has largely been built, while the Donnybrook to Ballsbridge route is under construction. Connecting the Milltown riverside walk and Dodder Park at Dartry at the “pinch point” above the Dropping Well, where currently pedestrians and cyclists have to leave the riverside, mount a steep hill and descend another, has the support of most river users. The route is still up for constructive rather than “heated” discussion. – Yours, etc,
Ciarán Ferrie

This is the route proposed - the Golf Club isn't delighted by the idea but it really doesn't impact on their use of the practice green in any way.

What it does do is avoid the steep incline up to Dartry, making the greenway more accessible and inclusive, while also minimising the impact on the riparian ecosystem along the Dodder.

Google aerial view of the practice putting green at Milltown Golf Club with the River Dodder looping around it to the north. The line of the proposed Greenway is shown along the south bank of the river and bridging across to Dartry Park to the west.
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Jun 12, 2023, 08:33 AM·Public·Web
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