Letters to the Editor: New stretch of greenway is a welcome boost to our wellbeing
Cork County Council CEO Valerie O'Sullivan, junior minister Jack Chambers, and Mayor of the County of Cork Frank O'Flynn officially opening the Midleton to Mogeely section of the greenway which will eventually reach Youghal. Picture: Brian Lougheed
As a senior citizen with free travel I am delighted with the opening of the first phase of the Midleton to Youghal greenway — from Midleton to Mogeely. As the greenway begins where the Cork to Midleton train ends, it has brought spring closer to my home.
Places from childhood, which had become accessible only in memory I can now see to sketch and paint again: Cahermone Castle, Ball’s Rock and House, the old ‘Shanty’ level crossing, and the Roxborough river, to mention only some. For me, the colours and moods of east Cork’s pasture and wetlands broken by woodland sanctuaries is a landscape to delight in all seasons.
