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Major blaze on Mourne Mountains 'probably deliberate' Firefighters tackle a large gorse fire in the Slieve Donard. Picture by Conor Kinahan/Pacemaker Press.. 26 April, 2021 08:34 Photo taken with permission from the Twitter feed of @PatrickCorrigan showing a huge gorse fire spreading across the Mourne Mountains in Co Down. The fire in the Slieve Donard area has been ongoing since the early hours of Friday morning, with up to 60 firefighters and 12 appliances battling the blaze. Issue date: Saturday April 24, 2021. A MASSIVE firefighting operation to tackle a...
SHARE You never forget your first bomb. On April 12, 1989, the solid whump of a 680-kilogram car bomb set off by the Irish Republican Army was enough to stop me and my classmates at St Peter’s Boys’ School dead in our tracks. Our heads snapped right, watching the growing cloud of smoke rising from Charlotte Street, the site of our little town’s fortified police barracks. That blast – which I remember more as a feeling than a sound – killed Joanne Reilly, 20, who had been working in Heately & Morgan’s hardware shop beside the station belonging to the RUC, the local police force. It...
Firefighters battling major gorse fire in the Mourne Mountains A large gorse fire in the Mourne Mountains MORE than 50 firefighters battled a gorse fire in the Mourne Mountains yesterday. Firefighters worked to put out the fire in the Bloody Bridge area of Newcastle from the early hours. A spokesman for the Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service said 12 fire appliances were helping to fight the blaze. The wind later pushed the fire down the eastern slope of Leganabruchan and into Donard Forest in Newcastle. Mourne Heritage Trust and Sky Watch, a charity which uses drones t...