Irish Examiner view: Are our islands the route to the future?

The Dursey Island Cable Car reopened yesterday having been closed for an upgrade in March 2022. Picture: Brian Lougheed

It was, no doubt, a matter of happy coincidence that West Cork’s Dursey Island cable car reopened in the same week as an upbeat government strategic report — the first for 27 years — into the future of the islands of Ireland.

The Republic’s only cable car, originally opened in 1969 when Jack Lynch was Taoiseach, was closed more than 12 months ago for a €1.6m upgrade with a promise that it would reopen in 2022.