Reader's Blog: Why is Green Party against greenway?

I was astonished to read that the Green Party is opposing the introduction of a cycle path/greenway between Midleton and Youghal (Irish Examiner, October 22) and I begin to understand why it is in such a low position in the polls. You would imagine the Green Party would enthusiastically endorse the project.

Instead it supports a hare-brained, pie-in-the-sky notion that fighting to bring back a railway to Youghal, which, it assures us, might be viable in the future, is a better option. The party suggests this without researching the facts. You can afford to do that when you don’t live in a real world. You can also believe that one option excludes the other. It does not.