Latest News from the Ring of Gullion

Who goes there? Wildlife Tracks and Trails

Posted on: 1st October 2015

“What’s about in the Wild” is the name of a new programme of events and training being offered this autumn…

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The Ring of Gullion on Open Country

Posted on: 29th September 2015

Helen Mark visits the Ring Of Gullion in Northern Ireland to discover it's ancient geographical features that are now attracting visitors from all over the world.

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Irish Wildlife Trust Launch Lizard Survey

Posted on: 25th September 2015

Have you ever seen a Lizard in the Ring of Gullion area? Do you have a photo?

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Local company wins prestigious design award for Ring of Gullion Website

Posted on: 25th September 2015

Local company, Wibble Web Design & Development has won a DANI award – Northern Ireland’s premier digital industry awards for its work on the revamp of the Ring of Gullion’s new website. The website revamp was part of The Ring of Gullion Landscape Partnership, a Heritage Lottery Fund programme to conserve and enhance some of the region’s most treasured landscapes.

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Feeling Crafty? Classes Starting this Week.

Posted on: 22nd September 2015

A range of art and craft classes are starting in Crossmaglen Community Centre this week and running for a number of weeks.

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What’s Under Your Feet? Calling all Schools and Community Groups

Posted on: 22nd September 2015

Inspire your students to become citizen scientists and join in with BTO's hands on experiment. By taking part you will be contributing to the first large scale study of soil invertebrate abundance across the country.

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Michael J. Murphy Short Story Competition 2015

Posted on: 18th September 2015

Some of the details for the Michael J. Murphy Winter School on the weekend of November 20th / 21st 2015.

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It’s time to pick the nation’s favourite park

Posted on: 17th September 2015

This year a record breaking 1,582 parks and green spaces were awarded the prestigious, international Green Flag Award. These award winners included Slieve Gullion Forest Park. You can find all the winning parks at greenflagaward.org

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Last call for budding photographers to enter Ring of Gullion Photo Competition.

Posted on: 14th September 2015

Newry Mourne and Down District Council and the Ring of Gullion AONB project are calling on all budding photographers to get their photos in before the competition deadline of the 23th September. The theme this year is ‘The World around us in the Ring of Gullion”, which photographers are free to interpret any way they choose. This could be our Built, Cultural or even Natural Heritage.

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Come and celebrate all things Red Squirrel in Slieve Gullion

Posted on: 14th September 2015

The Ring of Gullion and Cooley Red Squirrel Group to offer a wild day out for all at Slieve Gullion Forest Park on Saturday 3rd October from 1.00pm to 4.00pm. Come along to this free event to learn more about our furry native red squirrels and autumn in the park.

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Village SOS – Are you missing out on valuable support?

Posted on: 14th September 2015

Village SOS is an exciting new opportunity for rural based organisations to get practical support to develop a new project or add value to an existing project. It is about rural communities being enterprising in their approach to developing a solution to a local issue. The project may have a particular social economy focus but it simply can be about trying to develop a more sustainable service to meet local need.

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The future of private forestry grants in Northern Ireland

Posted on: 11th September 2015

The new Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme was formally approved by the European Commission at the end of August 2015 and it is hoped that support measures for forestry will be announced this autumn. The key headline is the switch to a focus on larger scale commercial planting on ground of limited agricultural productivity. Support will remain for smaller broadleaved woodlands such as those supported in the last programme and these environmentally focussed woodlands will be grant aided thought the new agri environment scheme. The private forestry sector in Northern Ireland are optimistic that the new support structure will give a much needed boost to new afforestation as the amount of woodland established over recent years has dwindled to a level of about 200ha per annum.

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