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This is the "Dursey Cable Car" (although I guess at a certain point "The Flying Dumpster" must also have been on the shortlist), the only cable car in Ireland. It connect Dursey Island with the mainland.
I guess the unusual design, where the cable car is hanging on two cables, has something to do with the windy conditions. This should stabilise it more, so it can run also in unfavourable weather.
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Don’t think anyone expected the work on the new cable car to be finished on time, because, are they ever?
Access failures for the residents were also feared & here we are: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41020514.html
Worth adding, Dursey Island is also the start / end of the 4700 km E8 Walking Route which passes through Ukraine.
We had good reason to acknowledge this then & now.
Context of people, time & place.
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