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“The loss of a Swansea/Cork Ferry Service would have a minimal impact on tourism in the City & West Cork”
John O’Donoghue -
ex-Minister for Tourism - now Chairman of the Dail
We’ve asked quite a few Cork & Kerry business people for a suitable quote in reply to John’s statement - but we couldn’t find anything that we could print !
In summary - they didn’t agree! ..... and that’s putting it very mildly.........
“An overall loss to the South-west region of €35m - the ferry brought an average of 105,000 visitors and 40,000 cars each year”
Cllr Dermot Sheehan
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Bring back the Swansea Cork Ferry
- The e-petition page
Please use this form to tell us how you feel about the continued suspension of the
Swansea-Cork ferry and how it is affecting you.
It doesn’t matter where you are from.. we thank you for your support!
You can see the latest entries on the e-petition on this page - just below the form.
Over the weeks you’ve sent us some cracking entries - see some of the best in our e-petition Hall of Fame
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The E-petition Form.....
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Name: Cork Business Association - HomePage: www.corkbusiness.ie - City: Cork - Country: CorkSent: 23/07/2008 13:23:32The Cork Business Association represents over 200 businesses in Cork City and we would like to add our support for the reinstatement of the Cork Swansea Ferry for 2009.
The CBA will lobby government Ministers and City Councillors where possible. The loss of the ferry has adversely affected traders throughout the Southwest and certainly in Cork City.
Keep up the good work.
Donal Healy
Chief Executive, Cork Business Association
Name: Ciara O'Halloran - HomePage: www.deviantart.cizie.com - City: Dublin - Country: IrelandSent: 23/07/2008 11:08:32Bring it BACK!!!
Name: Noel Condon - City: cork - Country: irelandSent: 23/07/2008 10:54:42I live in Crosshaven and we also miss the ferry.Cork is treated like a second class city and county by this Government e.g. airport depth,conference centre,poor roads,ferry.Major defishinces in the tourism industry of the area.We need people power before it is to late.keep up the good work
Name: andy palmer - Sent: 23/07/2008 9:47:55Bring back the swansea cork ferry, i like a pint with my mate in swansea before i leave !!
Name: Kieran O' Flaherty - City: Ringaskiddy Co. Cork - Country: Rep. Of IrelandSent: 23/07/2008 9:39:47Bring back the vital link between the UK and the whole South West area of Ireland . It's been missing for two seasons already , don't let it go to a third season . Peoples livelyhods depend on it .
Name: Eamonn Walsh - City: Reading - Country: EnglandSent: 23/07/2008 8:42:29I always travelled on the Swansea Cork Ferry for years to reduce my driving time to and from Ireland. It was always a great service. I really dislike the alternative options due to the odd hours of operation and long drives involved. Can't beat a good nights sleep, a shower and being refreshed before docking on either side. Please reinstate the service of 2009.
Name: Bertie O Mullane - City: Cork - Sent: 22/07/2008 20:55:52I used the ferry several times up to the time of it closing and I thought it was brilliant and I met some lovely people from the UK who found it great to be landed in Cork and gatway to the South and West Cork and Kerry. Its not a question of wheather it should come back but WHEN......... IT MUST come back. I bought several motorbikes in the UK and I used to look forward to the boat trip back home. With this petition I am looking forward to some FERRY good news in the not to distant future.
Name: ivor stallard - City: co cork - Country: IrelandSent: 22/07/2008 20:42:45i retired to Ireland ten years ago and used the ferry at least 4 times a year to visit my family and friends
now i have had to cut my trips to 1 or 2 due to the extra distance i have to travel.
please bring back the ferry
PS i wonder how much Irish ferries are paying to keep the route closed ' .
Name: Dominic - Sent: 22/07/2008 19:09:31bring it back.
Name: liam lally - City: cork - Country: corkSent: 22/07/2008 17:57:00we need the reinstatement of the floating bridge between wales and cork for many and varied reason 1 Tourism down both in Wales and the South of Ireland 2 Trucks and commercial Lorrys need the service for deliveries of goods beeteen our 2 countries 3the service was used for private and commercial cars. The ferry stopped running when it went into one persons private hands and iof Denis murphy was still alive it would be still running(he was one of the founder directors and remained committed to it until his death RIP.)Cork County Council should move on this immediatly,I have been told that cork Harbour commissioners are not interested.
Name: Neil Johnston - City: London - Country: UKSent: 22/07/2008 13:49:32This has ruined my life. I live one hour from Cork and unless I fly have to drive through Wales and half of Ireland.
BRING BACK THE SWANSEA CORK FERRY NOW!
Name: Eleanor Murphy - City: London - Sent: 22/07/2008 12:35:49Swansea / Cork ferry was the beginning of the holiday. This ferry service was far more convenient for us and certainly less mileage than travelling to Fishguard and then down to West Cork. Bring it back.
Name: Alice Crothers - Country: EnglandSent: 22/07/2008 11:44:31My friend and I are travelling to the Gower for a holiday next wek and then she was planning on visiting friends in Ireland. I am really suprised that this Ferry service no longer exists!!!!!!!!! this means that I will have to drive her from the Gower to Fishgaurd with 2 young children and a baby!!! needless to say she wont be visiting ireland now which is a real shame. BRING BACK THE SWANSEA TO CORK FERRY SERVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: P. Hanks - City: Stow on the Wold - Country: GloucestershireSent: 22/07/2008 11:38:26Dear Sirs, just a letter of support for restoring this Ferry as a necessary amenity to those who live in and visit the area.
P. Hanks
Name: Hayley Norton - City: Cork - Country: IrelandSent: 21/07/2008 22:56:09I have so many good memories going from Cork to Swansea to visit my family in England. It was so practical and easy, right on my doorstep. When my family and i moved to Cork from Cornwall we bought a coach and move our house contents over ourselves which we wouldnt have been able to do if it wasnt for the swansea-cork. Once we were asleep under a staircase with our sleeping bags and pillows, my mum, dad, younger brother and i (we could never afford a family cabin!) and when we woke up we realised after much searching that some nice person had stolen my dads boots which he had rested next to his head as he slept..After letting the crew know they managed to find one boot in the toilets and the other i guess must have gone overboard! So dad walked off the boat in one boot and one sock :-) One of many memories we have to smile about, please please bring it back. Its a gateway to our lovely county
Name: T & M Butler - City: Belgooly, Co Cork - Sent: 21/07/2008 19:08:47T,was a fantastic and very efficient service with excellent crew/staff. We used it every year. We need it back.
Name: Ciaran Cassidy - Sent: 21/07/2008 12:15:54bring it back
Name: Tim Twomey - City: Bucklebury - Country: UKSent: 21/07/2008 11:57:50Been making the crossing for more than 30years, most recently with my 1961 Jaguar. Much as I enjoyed the latest drive from Rosslare with my "toy", it really is a bit of an endurance test. I do it about 4 times a year. Is it any wonder I am feeling tired? It would seem a no brainer. Isnt Irish Ferries or Stena interested and if not, why not? . I checked recently for freight ferries and there isnt one of them either. Someone must be missing an opportunity.
Name: Ray Evans - City: Cork - Country: CorkSent: 21/07/2008 11:41:33If this is not brought back another nail in coffin is place for the tourism in the local area
Name: daniel sheahan - City: london - Country: ukSent: 21/07/2008 11:08:47i was going to go to cork/kerry for a couple of weeks holiday on the motorcycle but have canceled the trip due to there not being the swansea/cork ferry.it would mean much more milage on the trip to go by pembroke/fishguard to rosslare than the swansea link to get to killarney so i will go to cornwall instead!...daniel s
Name: Elaine Slater - Sent: 21/07/2008 0:17:22Having family in Kerry, we were regular passengers on the Swansea/Cork ferry.
Last year we made the marathon journey Holyhead/Dublin believing that it was only for one year but despite the promises, the service has not returned.
Please, please, please bring it back!!!!!!
PS. We're flying this year - not very enviromentaly friendly.....
Name: Paul Dudley - City: Cork county - Sent: 20/07/2008 23:49:06Its a shame to loose this service. Hopefully it will get replaced soon
Name: Malipaar d Ernst - Sent: 20/07/2008 20:04:33We were frequent users of the S-C ferry forand we hope sincerely that there will be a new life for this route
Name: Roger Cush - City: Cardiff - Country: WalesSent: 20/07/2008 19:48:48This is a great pity! Lots of cousins in Cork, and getting over to see them from S.Wales is now so much more difficult. It'll make us think twice about going. We strongly support the reinstatement of the service.
Name: Eileen Rodgers - City: Cardiff - Sent: 20/07/2008 19:47:38I love visiting my family in cork and going for holidays there, please bring the ferry back.
Name: michael Burns - City: cardiff - Country: walesSent: 20/07/2008 19:45:03Why are we waiting, I used to love visiting kenmare, now it a real hassle getting there.
Name: Sue Hill - HomePage: www.heronscove.com - City: Goleen - Country: West CorkSent: 20/07/2008 14:40:32With a B&B and Restaurant in West Cork, we are feeling the loss of the ferry acutely this summer. Our UK bookings are way down. The independent UK travellers with their own car (and often a dog) are almost non-existent. It is a long way down here from Rosslare or Dublin. For several couples who had been coming to holiday with us for more than ten years this is their second year without a visit to Ireland. BRING BACK THE SWANSEA CORK FERRY, PLEASE!
Name: pauline - City: London - Country: EnglandSent: 20/07/2008 14:15:22the drive to wales is long enough, the rest on the ferry is great knowing that it is only a very short drive home and a decent cup of tea.
One burning question WHY OH WHY when there is a good thing happening the twits (I'm being very polite) have to pull the rug!
Name: Mick Downs - Sent: 20/07/2008 12:51:48The Swansea-Cork Ferry lent to the long and tiring journey from the UK to Cork and Kerry the convenience without which many simply went and will now again go elsewhere. Inconvenience for the travelling public seems de rigeur nowadays. But S-C bucked that trend in 1987. I hope that the Welsh and SW Munster Councils can find the moral authority to engage with each other and with business interests to resurrect this crossing. (Hot air is all very well but the failure to grasp nettles must have the late D F O'Suillivan turning in his grave.)
Name: Adrian Morris - City: Wantage, Oxon - Country: EnglandSent: 20/07/2008 10:30:13Just back from 7 days in Killarney, having flight from Bristol-Cork and car hire. With torrential rain at Bristol, lugging cases to terminal building, 2 hrs wait to board, wife complaining about the clothes we couldn't bring to cater for weather conditions. Return journey better but £40 excess baggage. We would have spent more in South West Ireland but for this restriction.
Don't think we will do this again but if the ferry is back at least twice/year,
Once with wife and once with 7 other golfers.
Name: Janet Jenkins - City: Newark - Country: NottsSent: 19/07/2008 21:03:32PLEASE return the Swansea-Cork ferry. The journey is far too arduous now for us to visit the beautiful county of Cork.
Name: Mrs Chapman - Country: UKSent: 19/07/2008 20:40:48Having used the swansea cork ferry service since I was a child coming to Ireland EVERY year, I am so disappointed that it is not running. My family and I travel to ireland (kerry region) about 4/5 times a year & we have had to endure the long trek from Dublin each time we take the car or the dreaded not so 'low cost airline' Ryanair trip its an absolute nightmare travelling now. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring back the swansea cork ferry 
Name: Kay Cartwright - City: Faversham - Country: EnglandSent: 19/07/2008 19:31:11I first went to Kerry with my family the year after the war ended. Since then not a year has passed without a visit.
For us, it is an arduous and expensive journey this year via Rosslare, involving two nights Band B.
Bring back the Swansea/Cork ferry link and make us all smile again.
Name: pamela - City: Cork - Country: IrelandSent: 19/07/2008 18:09:55im living in ireland and studing in swansea and have to take the train to cardiff and fly 2 cork or train to rosslare and ferry to fishguard and bus to cork!!! Which is not my ideal way of travellimng!!!! Please bring back the swansea cork ferry!!! it a complete nightmare without it!!!
Name: Greg Latour - HomePage: www.euroka.com/spideoga - City: Inchigeelagh - Country: IrelandSent: 19/07/2008 16:31:26As a guesthouse owner in West-Cork we are
missing a proper ferry connection and we are definitly loosing customers through the absence of The Swansea-Cork: route!
Name: bernie wells - City: doncaster - Country: englandSent: 19/07/2008 14:09:18we used the ferry for many years when we lived in London, since moving to south yorkshire we were only able to go in 2006.we were hoping to go in 2007 had to go holyhead/dublin a nightmare , we would only travel by air unless the ferry is re-enstated
Name: sheila napper - HomePage: Blencathra - City: Taunton - Country: EnglandSent: 19/07/2008 13:53:20We have a house in Glengarriff which we used to visit up to 5 times a year. The journey now is a nightmare and we find the time between visits gets longer. We feel let down that all the loyal passengers which gave Swansea Cork ferries good custom over the years have been so badly let down.
Name: Howard Martin - City: London - Country: UKSent: 18/07/2008 22:47:37Would love to have used this ferry to cut down on driving to my holiday in Clare. At a time when it's become clear that air travel contributes significantly to global warming it makes sense to bring back this ferry. Uneconomic? Give the govt. airport susidies to ports instead.
Name: Terry Pickett - City: Charleston, West Virginia - Country: USASent: 18/07/2008 22:30:52My husband and I are about to embark on a trip to Ireland and were very grateful we could avoid driving from Dublin to Dingle because there was a ferry from Swansea to Cork. What a disappointment to find it is no longer up and running. Have not the powers that be heard of global warming, high gas prices, etc.! Hope you all can reinstate the ferry ASAP.
Name: Miss o“Sullivan - City: Dublin - Country: EireSent: 18/07/2008 21:54:48
I really, really wish,
that we can bring back the Swansea Cork Ferry
With love,
Miss o“sullivan
Name: Silke R. - Country: GermanySent: 18/07/2008 21:50:30I“m quite sad, that this boat has run out of buissnis.
I hope we can bring it back soon.
Name: Leon I. - Country: germanySent: 18/07/2008 21:47:48I“m really sad that this boat cant drive between Swansea and Cork.
Every jear I drove with this boat, i miss it!!!
Name: Lisa R. - Country: germanySent: 18/07/2008 21:45:10I“m really sad that this boat cant drive between Swansea and Cork.
Name: Felix R, - Country: germanySent: 18/07/2008 21:43:56I“m really sad that this boat cant drive between Swansea and Cork.
Name: Tom Maguire - City: Newark - Country: United KingdomSent: 18/07/2008 20:43:09All that is needed is:
1. A sum of money
2. A bit of planning
3. Balls
Will someone please get on with it!
Name: Patricia Elliott - City: Kinsale - Country: IrelandSent: 18/07/2008 18:30:17It is really vital for the south west of Ireland to have a sea link with the U.K. Air travel will be more and more costly and full of hassle so BRING IT BACK.
Name: Charlotte Howard - City: London - Country: UKSent: 18/07/2008 14:49:07We used to use the Cork-Swansea ferry regularly to travel to a place near Bantry. Now to bring the car across we have been taking the Pembroke to Rosslare route which is a very long way round!
Bring back the Cork-Swansea ferry - you have my vote!
Many thanks, Charlotte
Name: Molly O'Doherty - Sent: 18/07/2008 12:50:00Please bring it back
Name: Angela O'Reilly - City: London - Country: UKSent: 18/07/2008 12:27:58Please bring back the ferry - we really wish to avoid the pain of travelling with a baby by plane
Name: Breeda Jordan - City: London - Sent: 18/07/2008 6:12:58My family love Cork and Kerry and we used to use the ferry several times a year. Now we have to go the long way around to Rosslare and drive down to the region adding to the congestion on the roads and wasting expensive petrol. The net result is that it is not worth our while and find that it is easier to go to Dover and across to Calais to spend our holiday and euros in France. If the ferry was restored we and other reluctant defectors would be delighted to return.
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