Could the Youghal-Waterford ferry route be re-established?
Records suggest locals were using ferries to get around since at least the 13th century but the line was closed in 1954.Advertisement“I remember being brought down here on the bar of the bicycle for what they now call a ‘rite of passage’ for the first communion and the confirmation,” he told Josh Crosbie for“You’d be brought across to Youghal on the ferry and measured up and somebody would call you ‘Master Gallagher’ or whatever.
Mr Gallagher said there was a “lot of pressure” from locals in favour of it but there was still plenty that needs to be worked out.“We already have a pontoon that was brought there at the beginning of April but it was brought away there two weeks back.”headland hopping’, as he called travelling from peninsula to peninsula, would be “much more practical” if there was a ferry to transport people.
“So, by the time we got to Ardmore, which is on the Waterford side of Youghal, we kind of thought, ‘Well, if you’re walking or if you’re cycling, rather than going all the way inland and around the ring road of Youghal, why can’t we ‘headland hop’?”Not everyone shared his enthusiasm; local businessman Michael Farrell said he thought it an “April’s Fool joke” when he first heard it.
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