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🎉🏆 Huge congratulations to Lough Boora Running Group! 🏆🎉
We are thrilled to see Lough Boora Running Group named a winner at the Offaly County Council Community & Voluntary Group Awards 2026! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️👏
This recognition is so well deserved. Over the years, the group has brought people of all ages and abilities together at Lough Boora Discovery Park, promoting health, wellbeing, and incredible community spirit across Offaly. From weekly runs to massive charity fundraisers like the annual Santa Dash, your dedication makes a real difference to local causes and families every single year.
Well done to every committee member, volunteer, and runner who makes this group what it is. Enjoy the celebrations! 🥂🎊
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When the wetlands stand still, the whole landscape doubles in beauty. 💧✨
Walking the sculpture trail at Lough Boora is a masterclass in water reflections. From the delicate arch of Light as a Feather and the industrial geometry of System No. 30 to the bold lines of Tippler Bridge, every structure finds its twin in the glassy canal waters below.
Set against the sweeping horizon, the water blurs the boundary from Earth to Sky, turning weathered steel and timber into living, shifting art with every passing cloud. 🌿

📍 Lough Boora Discovery Park, Co. Offaly

Tippler Bridge, Light as a Feather Kevin O'Dwyer Metalsmith/Sculptor
System No.30 Julian Wild .
Earth to Sky, Alfio Bonanno .
Cycles ,Caroline Madden .
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From a 9,000-year-old Mesolithic hunting ground to an industrial peat bog, and now one of Europe’s premier outdoor art spaces—the story of Lough Boora Discovery Park is pure magic.

Here is how a community turned industrial scars into a sanctuary of creativity:
🌱 The Turning Point: In the late 20th century, as industrial peat harvesting by (Bord na Móna) BnM wound down, pioneer Tom Egan noticed the cutaway bogs naturally rewilding. Instead of abandoning the land, a vision for a 2,000-hectare public park was born.

🎨 The Artistic Spark: In 2002, sculptor and curator Kevin O'Dwyer, alongside Offaly County Council and the Lough Boora Parklands Group, launched a groundbreaking international art symposium.

🚂 Industrial Rebirth: Artists were given a unique challenge: use the discarded relics of the bog's industrial past—old railway lines, heavy machinery parts, timber, and ancient bog oak—to create massive, site-specific environmental sculptures.

Today, the 2.8 km Sculpture Loop features 24 permanent installations where history, heavy industry, and recovering nature collide.

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