Category: 2. CAMPAIGNS AND ISSUES

DOWN Councillor Cadogan Enright has succeeded in a 2-year long campaign to have the ASDA bottle bank recycling centre reinstated after a meeting with managers from ASDA’s regional Head Office in Edinburgh.…

DOWN Councilor Cadogan Enright has called on ASDA in Downpatrick to undertake their responsibilities to the community and to customer service by providing for the return of recycling at their…

DOWN Councillor Cadogan Enright has welcomed the news that another bureaucratic log-jam preventing the Ballyhornan Task Force from applying for funding for social housing has been removed. Cllr Enright said “Last September…

Sunday’s fire was the sixth I have witnessed in the immediate vicinity of the old A/E in Downpatrick in about 8 months on Health Trust property. It is to be…

(from Information supplied by John Peacocke of Finnebrogue, Downpatrick) Ireland is totally unsuited to the process of hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ to extract natural gas, according to the best-selling author…

Down Councillors Cadogan Enright and Dermot Curran have succeeded in establishing a cross-party sub-committee to campaign to retain and attract  public sector jobs in Downpatrick , and to address years of delays…

Enormous damage has been done to the centre of Downpatrick by poorly-planned management of valuable land and buildings across a whole swathe of the town by the SE Health Trust. As…

I was called out to the YMCA in Newcastle by staff who were quite shocked at the reaction of the PSNI to a break-in at the centre. Staff laptops and…

Shortly after my re-election in May 2011 I finally succeeded in a 2 year campaign to stop sewage flowing into Drumaness River from the new sewage plant which had clearly…

Following Digital UK writing to Down District Council last year us last year on the schedule for switch-over, I wrote back to them to them seeking reassurance that widespread concern…