Latest News from the Ring of Gullion

Hot of the Press – Lúnasa Festival 2016 Events Guide

Posted on: 10th June 2016

Highlights of our upcoming Lúnasa Festival 2016

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Fish fry given new homes

Posted on: 8th June 2016

Pupils from four local schools released new fish fry into local rivers after looking after them in their schools and learning all about fish life cycles and the environment.

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Registration for Rural Development Programme Opens!

Posted on: 7th June 2016

Opportunities to apply for capital funding for community and business projects in Rural Areas in the Newry, Mourne and Down Disrict Council area will shortly be available from the Rural Development Programme.

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Get Ready for Rural Development Funding!

Posted on: 5th June 2016

The Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme. 2014 -2020 interim local rural development strategy for Mourne, Gullion and Lecale has been released. The Mourne, Gullion and Lecale Interim Rural Development Strategy sets out plans for allocating £11 million of rural development funding across the Local Action Group (LAG) area over the next five years.

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Sir Peter Luff sees impact of Heritage Lottery Funding on Newry, Mourne and Down

Posted on: 2nd June 2016

Delegates from the Heritage Lottery visited the Ring of Gullion last week to see the positive impact the LPS is having on the community.

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Digging into our Past: Cornahove – The Lost Ringfort

Posted on: 3rd May 2016

In partnership with Queen’s University Belfast’s Centre for Archeological Fieldwork (CAF), the Ring of Gullion Landscape Partnership is planning to undertake a new programme of archaeological investigation at the site of Carnahove - The Lost Hillfort at Lough Ross and there are going to be plenty of opportunities for the local community to be involved “digging into our past”!

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Ring of Gullion features on Secret Britain

Posted on: 29th April 2016

Last night, Thursday 29th April, saw Slieve Gullion and its myths and legends featured on BBC One's Secret Britain. Secret Britain is a BBC documentary series presented by Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury. In last nights episode the series was exploring hidden corner and revealing landscape secrets.

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Local community outraged at latest threat to the mountains in the Ring of Gullion: Slieve Brack

Posted on: 25th April 2016

The Ring of Gullion ANOB project is saddened to report that a large wildfire on Slieve Brackn has done extensive damage to the heath habitat, a habitat of international significance.

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Bessbrook Model Village wins Heritage Lottery Fund support

Posted on: 25th April 2016

Today, the Ring of Gullion Landscape Partnership has received £55,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project, ‘The Model Village Living History Archive’, in Bessbrook. Led by volunteers from the local community (Bessbrook Heritage Group, Bessbrook Development Company and Friends of Derrymore), the project focuses on Bessbrook's heritage and will allow people to be proud of their village again. It aims to do this by creating innovative interpretation, developing the local skills, knowledge base and networks and engaging with the local community in a fun way and hosting intergenerational and cross community workshops.

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South Armagh Outdoor Recreation Organisations Given The Right to Choose.

Posted on: 18th April 2016

The Ring of Gullion team is asking organsiations in south Armagh involved in outdoor sports and recreation, if they are revved up to set up an Outdoor Recreation Forum? There was a very positive meeting on the 26th April in Mullaghbane Community Centre with a number of businesses and groups from the area turning up.

Sport NI was on hand to talk about how other forums have been set up in Northern Ireland and how the groups in these areas have benefited. They also spoke about upcoming funding opportunities in Outdoor Recreation.

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Butterfly Recorders Day 2016

Posted on: 8th April 2016

The Northern Ireland Recorders Day is our annual get together to share information about the year gone by, look ahead to where we’re going, hear about current projects affecting our butterflies and moths and, most importantly, to catch up with one another before the season really gets underway.

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Armagh Down CC looking forward to a busy 2016

Posted on: 6th April 2016

Armagh Down Cycling Club were launched late in 2015, and can already boast over 60 members. A lot of work has gone on behind the scenes to get the club to where it is, in such a short time.

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