Loved by cyclists, loathed by landowners, why are greenways so divisive?

It’s a crisp, sunny autumn afternoon at the Coach House café just outside Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford.

Once a grim famine workhouse, today the imposing stone buildings are a popular lunch spot on the Waterford Greenway, ideally positioned for hungry cyclists and walkers roughly halfway down the 46km linear route between Waterford City and Dungarvan.

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