A community initiative to remember Irish tunnel workers is making good progress following the first meeting last weekend.
A committee was set up on Saturday to plan for the creation of a monument honouring the Donegal men who worked in the UK – known as the Donegal Tunnel Tigers.
It is hoped that deceased workers who died in accidents or from ill health relating to work can be commemorated on a Wall of Remembrance or monument.
The meeting room at Dungloe’s Ionad Teampall Chróine was full to capacity on Saturday as relatives and interested parties voted by a large majority to put up a monument in Dungloe.
The new committee chairman Hugh Rodgers of Arranmore said that a number of tunnel contractors have agreed to fund this very worthy cause, while any other contractors wanting to be part of the project can contact Tony McFadden in London.
“I am asking people and business in Dungloe if they could offer a suitable site for the monument to be erected,” said Mr Rogers.
“The committee will be meeting in a month’s time, and it’s hoped that site can be chosen then.
“This wall of remembrance or monument will be dedicated to all those miners including coal miners killed from Donegal down through the years, it will also be dedicated to all the thousands of people who died of tunnel related diseases,” Mr Rodgers added.
For more information, visit the Donegal Tunnel Tigers group on Facebook at: www.facebook.com/groups/916993271709750/about
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