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Baby red squirrels born on Ballykinler Training Area
Red squirrels have struggled to populate in Northern Ireland due to grey squirrels forcing them out of their home territory. In April 2015, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) was approached by Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), Belfast Zoo and Northern Ireland Squirrel Forum (NISF) to support the re-introduction of red squirrels through a special breeding programme.
Ballykinler Training Area was used as there are no grey squirrels or pine martens on site allowing the red squirrels to safely acclimatise to the outside world and develop survival skills before widening their horizons into other forests across Northern Ireland. Staff at DIO set up a nursery area, feeding and water stations, nesting boxes and cameras to monitor the squirrels.
One priest s vision to bring the zoo to a County Derry village
The zoo eventually fell victim to the Troubles after the onset of internment.
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Most are familiar with Fr James Horan s campaign to capitalise on the tourism boom in Knock, County Mayo, by building an airport, but two decades beforehand, another clergyman had implemented his own grand ideas to bring a zoo to rural north Derry.
Liam Tunney finds out more about the fascinating story.
Across Ireland s north coast, the 1960s brought a boom in local tourism.
The National Trust had taken ownership of the Giant s Causeway, announced to the wider world in 1963 after a paper was presented to the Royal Society by Sir Richard Bulkeley.
The Feeny Presybyterian who almost became Taoiseach
Rev James Irwin was also a fervent supporter of Home Rule.
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An early 20th century ecclesiastical split on the issue of Home Rule sparked a chain of events which led to a County Derry Presbyterian minister eventually turning down a run at the Irish presidency.
Rev. James Alexander Hamilton Irwin, born in Feeny and educated at Magee College in Derry, became a Presbyterian minister when he was ordained at Killead, County Antrim, in 1903.
He served the ministry for 23 years, but the love, but it was his actions in the years that followed that saw him forgo the love, fellowship and comfortable retirement such a stint usually provided.