Campaigners have called for years for Athlone, a town roughly midway between Dublin and Galway, to be upgraded to a city at the heart of a future Ireland. Now RTE is examining this possibility in a new three-part series called Futureville Ireland that airs next week to coincide with Science Week.
Athlone could be the most exciting urban centre in Ireland and a potential rival to Dublin as the country’s new high-tech capital, a new telly series claims. Campaigners have called for years for Athlone, a town roughly midway between Dublin and Galway, to be upgraded to a city at the heart of a future Ireland.
Athlone’s rise to the cusp of super-city status has gained momentum over the last decade. It pushed to be designated a regional city in 2017 in submissions to Project Ireland 2040. The report projected that the midlands town could more than double in size before 2040 and become the biggest area in the region and the country’s second capital.
The National Planning Framework is the country’s vision for the next 20 years as part of Project Ireland 2040, which is the overarching policy and planning framework for the social, economic and cultural development of Ireland, as devised by the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government on behalf of the Government.
Other new towns have emerged in the past, like Shannon in Clare, Monard in Cork, and at least three in Dublin — Adamstown, Clonburris, and Seven Mills. But none has quite built momentum like Athlone currently, according to a think-tank that assessed a range of European locations based on their attractiveness to foreign direct investment.
Maynooth University engineering professor Gerry Lacey tells the show’s presenters Carla O’Brien of RTE and Dr Lorraine ‘Lollie’ Mancey of UCD Innovation Centre in episode one how robots will become a key part of our daily lives over the coming decades.
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