The battle to secure funding for the Narrow Water Bridge may have been won but business leaders in the Carlingford Lough area are now beginning a campaign – to attract new businesses to the region. In a statement Warrenpoint/Burren/Rostrevor (WBR) Chamber of Commerce said that work will begin this week to develop the product that the area will offer visitors coming to Mourne/Cooley/Ring of Gullion area after the opening of the bridge in summer 2015. “The bridge is almost won. It still requires the support of Minister Leo Varadkar of the Coalition Government in the Republic of Ireland and Minister Sammy Wilson of the Northern Ireland Executive to make this vision a final reality,” the statement read. “(But already) We have seen the first ‘green shoots’ of this revival in the recent acquisition of three commercial properties (in Warrenpoint) since the announcement of the planning permission for the bridge. Let us encourage Louth County Council and Newry and Mourne County Council to jointly make Carlingford Lough and Slieve Gullion a must see destination because of its outstanding beauty, its history and wealth of legends. A Carlingford Lough communities we cannot let this important once in a lifetime opportunity slip from our hands. There will be a meeting of Narrow Water Bridge Action Group this week to take this wider project forward of winning the prosperity that the communities of South Down and North Louth so richly deserve.”
Newry Reporter
7th November 2012
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