Category: Farming / Agriculture

‘Down District Farmers For Renewable Energy’ (DDFFRE) have announced that they are considering a position of actively opposing the proposed offshore wind farm on economic grounds. DDFFRE was recently formed…

Following a positive meeting with Environment Minister Attwood and MP Margaret Ritchie last month, local farmers are seeking a meeting with new Down senior planner Barbara Elliot. A large number…

A large number of local farmers gathered for a meeting last Tuesday in Denvirs Hotel for the inaugural meeting of a new farmer’s organization.  Elliot Bell of the UFU and…

Councilor Cadogan Enright organized a meeting of farmers from the Down area with the Ulster Farmers Union following a series of planning decisions which he has described as ‘mercurial’. Cllr…

  Cllr Cadogan Enright with Mr Carson and Paddy Flynn of Green Energy 4u,   Extracts from a statement made by Cllr Enright to Down Recorder on special 3-page suppliment…

Below is a letter that Cllr Cadogan Enright sent to the Down Recorder with regards the emerging debate between Environmentalists and Conservationists on the issue of Wind Turbines on the…

  Cllr Cadogan Enright with Paddy Flynn and Bill Corry on Montgomery’s farm at Minerstown Lecale Councillor Cadogan Enright welcomed the lifting of an effective ban by planners at Rathkelter…

  (R>L front row) Cllr Cadogan Enright, Laura Dempsey, Anne Polley, Orla Tumelty with (R>L back row ) Jim Sloan, Terry Rooney, Niall Kennedy, Mark Johnston, Antony Irvine, Paul Carville.…

Cllr Burgess and Cllr Enright, originally uploaded by downgreenparty. Local Green Party Cllr Cadogan Enright has called for incentives recently been introduced in the Republic to be extended to Northern…

Land erosion in Lecale, originally uploaded by downgreenparty. Bill Corry is currently investigating on behalf of the Green Party into what looks like destruction and the erosion of land due…