Irish Tourist Town Wants to Thwart Rain with New “Roof” Over Streets

Killarney may already be Ireland’s top tourist town, but the locals think there is one obstacle preventing them from going from good to great — the rain!

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Killarney © Howzey

Killarney receives the third-highest rainfall in Europe and the plan to install a thick canvas “roof” over many of the town’s streets was devised based on the view that greater numbers of people would be enticed to visit and spend more time there if they were protected from all that precipitation.

Check it out in the Irish Independent.

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