Mayo VeloRail project first in Ireland

THE country's first VeloRail is coming to Kiltimagh.

Funding of €180,000 was announced for the project this week by Minister of State Michael Ring.

VeloRail is an outdoor recreational activity using small, rail mounted pedal-propelled vehicles to move along a disused railway line.

The project will be the first of its kind in Ireland, and indeed in the UK, utilising 13 kilometres of the disused Sligo to Limerick line passing through the town of Kiltimagh.

* Pictured above at the announcement of funding for the VeloRail project in Kiltimagh were (from left) Joe Kelly (CEO, IRD Kiltimagh), Francis McNicholas (Kiltimagh Tourism Association), Nancy Lavan (chairperson, IRD Kiltimagh), David McNicholas, Robert Coyne (Mayo County Council), Minister of State Michael Ring, Padraig Philbin (Mayo County Council), Noel Armstrong, Martin Byrne (Mayo Celtic Holidays), Julie McNicholas (Kiltimagh Tourism Association) and Linda Nichol (IRD Kiltimagh).