{"id":8665,"date":"2014-11-04T08:39:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T08:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=8665"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:01:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:01:03","slug":"first-tour-de-castlebar-with-ernie-sweeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/11\/04\/first-tour-de-castlebar-with-ernie-sweeney\/","title":{"rendered":"First Tour de Castlebar, Future Greenway Epicenter, with Ernie Sweeney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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H<\/span><\/strong>aving chosen \u00a0to focus our energy on the American side of the Atlantic with our International Mayors’ Ride\u00a0because of all the change taking place over here in Ireland this last summer in local government, local historian, Ernie Sweeney<\/strong>\u00a0saved the day. A clairvoyant healer who didn’t learn how to read until he was in his twenties, with his photographic memory, Ernie helped us build a solid foundation for the genuinely public Tour de Castlebar\u00a0we hope to do next year. When you consider the fact that, as of last\u00a0June, Castlebar \u00a0became a town without a mayor \u00a0and that there had been. a shakeup\u00a0In the administration overseeing local greenway construction leaving trails we had wanted to build the ride around unfinished,\u00a0all we could do was prepare for 2015\u00a0once the new method of governing Castlebar was firmly established. No longer a town that controlled its own destiny, Castlebar, like all but three towns in Ireland, is now \u00a0run by the county in which it is situated.<\/p>\n

As such, in planning for next year, we acquired the services of one most amazing man to help us show what is so special about Castlebar on the regional, national and world plane. Inspiring Castlebar missionary \u00a0Larry Dunne<\/a>, <\/strong>a man with only one arm and no limits,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0and I rode to the Town Mall where we met Ernie who was on foot. Nor did we go far. There was so much history in this area, about one acre in size, that the following video only touches on some of the amazement Ernie filled us to the brim with:<\/div>\n

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