The Grand Canal, Dublin 2 earlier.
*clutches pearls*
Dara Squiggles tweetz:
We iz in ur gentrification
Tag Archives: Canal+
Richard Troy writes:
“Happily not what it looks like. Dog-owner trying hard to retrieve his retriever from under a lock on Royal Canal.”
More as we get it.
UPDATE: The dog-owner did save the dog, with help from nice man with the rope.
Yay!
Duck lanes installed on canal towpaths by the UK Canal and River Trust at London, Birmingham and Manchester.
There’s always one, though.
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By Alan O’Regan
Snapsnap writes:
Ha ha – this should bring a smile to many ! But, seriously nice to know clamps don’t rust !Any reward ? If my friends in the clamping business would like the location of same I will divulge the exact location for ……. Let’s say €80-00 ! Seems fair
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Anne writes:
Heron on the Royal Canal this afternoon.
Happy #ff from peanut, Kate n Nicola @kingofpaws @DSPCApetspa @WetNoseStudio @lostfoundpets @brightwater98 pic.twitter.com/IQ9ARHgxTD
— DSPCA (@DublinSPCA) December 6, 2013
Nicola, the Canal donkey on December 3 (top) and today (above).
But for quick-thinking Derek Haughton, the DSPCA and the Fire Brigade who KNOWS what might hNOM OMNOMNOM
Previously: Help On Its Way
The Corinth Channel, a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean: 6.3km long with no locks and just 21.4m wide at its base, the canal is impassible for most ships and extremely snug for the one above.
Otaga Times (New Zealand), April 20, 1899.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
The proposal, made on a number of occasions in the 19th century, for a canal from Dublin to Galway through which transatlantic steamers would travel on their way to Europe. Had it gone ahead, it would have been the Irish version of the Panama canal, severing the country in two. It never happened, possibly because it was quicker for the ships to go the longer way round than to stop at every lock…
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Ross McCarthy writes:
“Ah would ya look. The Grand Canal, right now.”
Aw.