The President Clinton peace park - it has a nice ring to it but the Government doesn't seem to think so.
Ballybunion, Co Kerry, prides itself on its strong American connections. Above all, it cherishes the fact that President Clinton, even as the Monica Lewinsky controversy raged, played golf at the links in September 1998 and went to see the statue erected in his honour in the town.
Given Mr Clinton's role in the peace process, it would be a fitting gesture, the Ballybunion Development Company felt, if a prominent one-acre site in the town was acquired by the State and developed as a public peace park bearing the President's name, at a cost of about £3 million.
Plans were drawn up when a site earmarked for the park became available and was viewed by an official from the Tanaiste's Department. According to Mr Jackie Hourigan, a director of the development company, the official was suitably impressed, as was Ms Harney. anaiste herself became enthused.
Mr Hourigan says the Department could see the tourist benefits. The matter was passed from the Tanaiste's office to the Office of the Taoiseach. That was when the political wheels began to spin.
According to Mr Hourigan, and senior Government sources have confirmed it, the proposal was also assessed by the Irish Embassy in Washington. The result was that Dr Martin Mansergh, special adviser to the Taoiseach, wrote to the development company recently rejecting the proposal because Mr Clinton's connection with Ballybunion "was tenuous" and "essentially accidental in nature".
Nonsense, says the development company. Ballybunion's connection with Mr Clinton is more than tenuous. When he came to Ireland in 1995 and was forced to cancel a planned golf outing to Ballybunion he promised to come back. Mr Hourigan says the President lived up to his promise and while he was waiting to fix a suitable date, read up on the course in the White House.
And some 12,000 of the 26,000 golfers who play in Ballybunion annually are Americans, says Mr Hourigan. Also the proposed peace park would be gazing out at the next parish to Ballybunion - America.
Mr Hourigan thinks the Government has been short-sighted in its approach and says the development company is more determined than ever to go ahead with the project.
"This is an excellent project and we are not going to abandon it just because of the present setback. We intend to highlight it and to mount a campaign to bring it to fruition," he said.