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GREEN PARTY ANNOUNCES VICTORY AT TYRELLA BEACH

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Cadogan Enright
on April 7, 2010
in 1. GREEN PRESS RELEASES / LATEST NEWS, AONB's, Bright & Ballynoe, Cadogan Enright, Strangford Lough and town and Tyrella/Minerstown
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Cllr Cadogan Enright (left) with local resident Philip Nye and Minister Edwin Poots at Tyrella Beach at the announcement today that the Lecale coastal area will all be designated an AONB under the new legislation.

DOWN Green Party Councillor Cadogan Enright has welcomed the announcement at Tyrella Beach last Wednesday of a climb-down by the Department of the Environment on their proposed de-designation of the area between St.Johns Point and Dundrum Bay as “areas of outstanding natural beauty” (AONB’s). Cadogan initiated the campaign to save the AONB a year ago and has been assisting local people in fighting the loss of the AONB status for the last 10 months.

Cadogan Enright said, “I have been overwhelmed with complaints from people living in Killough and Dundrum who were outraged at the proposal and its serious anomalies. In particular the revocation of AONB status for Tyrella’s blue flag beach, Miners town’s wildlife beach, and the Ballykinlar Dundrum bay area stand out as utterly astonishing. It was completely ironic that the car park at ASDA and McDonalds take-away in Downpatrick were proposed to be newly designated an AONB. This made no sense and left many local people perplexed”.

Cllr Enright said “The iconic view from St. John’s point back towards Newcastle and the Mournes ranks with the Giants causeway as the gems of the environment and a tourism magnet in NI. Withdrawing AONB status for this area would have damaged our growing tourist industry, one of the few sustainable industries in the area that we have direct control over. The Local Lecale Conservation Society even organized a protest be 30 local artists to paint the areas affected and put on an Art exhibition in Downpatrick Library.”

Cadogan Enright said that “During the year long campaign on this issue, local people have pointed out that Down District Council are introducing byelaws to manage the coast in the Minerstown area to protect wildlife. This area and it has been identified by them as an area suitable for the promotion of “green” tourism. The District Policing Partnership have also moved the boundaries of the PSNI’s areas of operation to enable them to police the byelaws introduced at Minerstown. It makes no sense that this are be excluded”.

Downpatrick Cllr Cadogan Enright concluded “As a public representative for the Lecale coast I am sure that I speak for an overwhelming majority of local people on this issue. The huge amount of work conducted by Down District Council in Dundrum Bay with the development of Minerstown as a centre for Green Tourism and the work down the years to get blue flag beach at Tyrella has created magnets of sustainable tourism development in South Down. To leave this area out of the designation would have been economic and environmental vandalism on the part of the Department of the Environment.”

Press Coverage

– Councillor hails Agency's 'climb down', Enright welcomes DOE 'climbdown'.

GREENS CALL FOR PLASTIC BAG TAX & CLEAN UP HEDGES IN BALLYNOE

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Cadogan Enright
on March 18, 2008
in 1. GREEN PRESS RELEASES / LATEST NEWS, Bright & Ballynoe, Cadogan Enright, Downpatrick, Employment/Economics and Pollution
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Picture at Marshallstown, Ballynoe Road, South of Downpatrick.
Councillor Enright with plastic bags lining the hedges

DOWN Green Councillor Cadogan Enright accused the chancellor of the exchequer of caving into vested interests by not proceeding with the proposed plastic bag tax in last weeks budget.

Councillor Enright said, “The huge numbers of plastic bags going into landfill and blowing about the countryside are a scandal, with the trees and hedges of some of our best beauty spots stuffed with unsightly plastic bags. We have seen the success of this policy in the Republic in recent years where a tiny tax of 15cents was sufficient to make people stop and think if they should be using recyclable bags instead”

Councillor Cadogan Enright continued “It is on the public record with the Electoral Commission that the English Labour Party is partly funded by people associated with big supermarkets, with Lord Sainsbury an active senior party member under Tony Blair having given £11 million to the party by 2003 and £16 million by 2007. Clearly this gives this industry undue influence”

Councillor Enright concluded, “Local shops will benefit from this change when it eventually happens, and many shopkeepers have told me that the custom and practice of handing out plastic bags with every purchase spread from the supermarkets, and I can recall when people used their own shopping bags – as in France – before this custom became embedded. Clearly the Republic has shown that people will go back to old pre-disposable ways if given a chance – so must we”.

Councillor Enright called on people to refuse a bug where they can, or take their own recyclable bags shopping.

Green Party members in the Ballynoe area cleared the polluted hedges there of plastic bags. Local Green Party member Mark McCormaik described them as “an eyesore to such a beautiful part of the countryside”.

Press Cuttings: bag tax campaign grows, Chancellor's budget not green enough, supermarket giants asked for bag charge

NO TO NUCLEAR AT ST. JOHNS POINT

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Cadogan Enright
on March 13, 2008
in 1. GREEN PRESS RELEASES / LATEST NEWS, Bright & Ballynoe, Cadogan Enright, Killough, Mark McCormick and Nuclear
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Green Party activist Mark McCormick and Cllr Cadogan Enright at St. Johns Point Lighthouse where a Nuclear Power plant is being proposed.

Green Party Activist Mark McCormick who lives within the Bright Parish in Down District Council has condemned the recent proposals to build five nuclear power plants in N.Ireland, one of which would be at St. Johns point in the Bright Parish.

Mark McCormick along with Green Party Cllr Cadogan Enright have spoken out against such plans to the local Down District Council.

Mark said, “Myself and residents at Saint John’s point have expressed concern at such proposals to build a nuclear plant at St. Johns Point. Some local councillors have spoken out in support of such plans but I think their position here is more about trying to get their faces in the local papers rather than offering real solutions to the pressing problems of climate change”

“I have spoken to many local people and not one of them has said they would like a nuclear power plant on their doorstep. For years we have had to face the threat of Sellafield in Cumbria, now the very same threat is on our doorsteps and even the thought of nuclear power has to be challenged.”

The Down District Green Party will continue to oppose the threat of nuclear power at all levels of government.