Speech by IWAI President on acceptance of the key for Dundovin from RNLI On November 26th, 2020, 16 months ago, Owen Medland RNLI Lifesaving Lead and I virtually turned the sod on Dunrovin, in Clogherhead, and at the Grand Canal 12th Lock respectively. I am honoured as IWAI President [...]
Key handover speech by IWAI Vice-President It is such a pleasure to stand here today on this, the penultimate stage of what has been a long and sometimes stormy journey for our Association. This collaboration with the RNLI is the ultimate testimony to the amazing generosity of the Rice family and their love [...]
Key Handover speech by President IWAI Dunrovin, IWAI HQ was first spoken about almost five Presidential terms ago. To put that in perspective it is 12-14 years since the idea of establishing a permanent home for IWAI on the Dunrovin site was discussed during Paul Garland’s tenure as IWAI President. Through the terms [...]
Key Handover speech by Chairman of the Dunrovin Development Committee We are here today at Dunrovin the ancestral home and birthplace of the IWAI to take possession of the keys of the new Dunrovin IWAI HQ building, events area and upgraded extensive grounds. A momentous day in the IWAI history and marks the [...]
RNLI hands over the keys to Dunrovin, Inland Waterways HQ An official key-handover ceremony took place in Coosan between the RNLI and the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (IWAI). The RNLI built the new permanent Lough Ree Lifeboat station and the new Dunrovin IWAI HQ on an IWAI site at Coosan. A [...]
Athlone Mayor tours Dunrovin The IWAI President Alan Kelly welcomed Mayor Aengus O’Rourke on a guided tour of Dunrovin, located on the shores of Lough Ree in Coosan, to view the build progress of the new IWAI clubhouse and RNLI lifeboat station IWAI President, Alan Kelly, said “The local authorities in Westmeath have been [...]
Dunrovin progress report Following the signing of the contract between IWAI and RNLI, the site clearance, and the first pandemic lockdown the contractors moved on to the Dunrovin site in August 2020 for the start of the build. Over the following months, taking COVID 19 restrictions into account, the build has progressed well. With [...]
A marine partnership provides a shared home for Lough Ree RNLI and the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland A partnership between the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland (IWAI) will result in a shared home for the two organisations in Athlone. The site of the [...]
The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight, the water mirrors a still sky ‘Wild Swans at Coole’ by WB Yeats Dr. Philip Blackstock was commissioned, as part of the planning process, to establish the health and condition of the trees growing at Dunrovin and to provide [...]
Defining Day in the History of the Association as the IWAI signs contract with the RNLI IWAI signs contracts with RNLI to build permanent lifeboat station and clubhouse facility for the association On September 16th 2020 the IWAI President Alan Kelly and IWAI Secretary John Fitzgerald, on behalf of the [...]
