All Set for the Protest Walk

Its Thursday evening and only a few more days until we gather at the village shop in Fenit at 1pm and then proceed to walk to Fenit Island Castle. The amount of support the campaign is receiving is overwhelming, national TV stations have been in contact, all the local politicians and TD's are fully behind the campaign to have offending fencing removed in Fenit Island. The social media campaign is receiving support from as far away as South Africa and Chile, massive amounts of supportive emails being sent to the new website. The new website was set up because the last facebook page was removed by facebook, obviously the landowners in question did not like all the publicity and then kept repeatedly reporting the page as offensive, pretty sad, do they think that because facebook took down the page everything would just go quiet?? How wrong they were, this just strengthens the resolve of everyone involved and garners more support, which is exactly what happened. The new website is fantastic and the amount of hits its getting is amazing. Today Kerry's Eye saw fit to put the story in the front page. Its such a pity the landowners in question will not enter into discussions with the committee, but it seems they are not for budging, but then neither is the whole community, the fight will go on until the fencing that blocks an age old right of way to the castle is removed.

 People only want to be able to walk the perimeter of the island in a safe manner, the fencing erected is very dangerous to say the least, there is another issue there with the RNLI, what if a fishing vessel or some other type of vessel was to run a ground at the back of the island or worse, there would be no way to access the back of the island with this fencing blocking the coastal path, food for though for the landowners!! The forecast is excellent for Sunday and this should make for a great community walk, also we would like to thank all the local businesses for there support, after the walk on Sunday Bertie Carmody will be providing free transport from the bank in the island back to the village and Tankard bar and restaurant who are providing free finger food and refreshments with Willie Kelly playing traditional music afterwards. This is going to be a peaceful walk and contrary to some reports there will be no fencing pulled down, it will be a peaceful walk right to the castle, we wont be using bullying tactics like the landowners have in the past to people walking in the island. So looking forward to great support and a great day on Sunday!!