‘Bat lights’ bring cost of cycling greenway to €1.9m

The need to put in special ‘bat lights’ pushed up the price of one of the country’s newest cycling greenways to €1.9 million.

The newest section of the planned Dublin-Galway greenway, alongside the Royal Canal on the northside of Dublin, which was opened recently by Tánaiste Joan Burton and Minister for Health Leo Varadkar, is just 2.5 kilometres long.

The original budget was €600,000 but the cost ended up at €1.9 million – ...