Slane based Councillor Wayne Harding has welcomed a response from Meath County Council in relation to the ongoing work on the Boyne Greenway which he says has the potential to be the best in the country.

"Since the public consultation earlier this year the project team has put to tender for a Topographical Survey for the entire route which is commencing this September” Cllr Harding said.

“A Ground Investigation Scheme has also been designed, environmentally assessed and is currently out to tender. This investigation will commence this year and I have asked, as I have always done since the start of this process, that landowners are consulted at every stage.

“It is now seven years since I led a delegation to Dungarvan to meet the then Waterford Chief Executive Michael Walsh to discuss the potential of a greenway and its positive impact on the towns and villages between Waterford city and Dungarvan.

“The Boyne Greenway has the potential to be the best in the country as it is quite literally dripping with historical iconic monuments along its path.

“I have come across a quote from William Wilde the father of the playwright Oscar Wilde who documented the course of the river Boyne from source to sea that is still lauded in academic circles today, where he said there is a monument to all stages of human existence on the island of Ireland along the path of the river Boyne.

“A Greenway would allow visitors to explore these monuments by foot, bicycle and boat as they did nearly 200 year ago when the book was written.”