Matthew McGreehan and Mick Larkin handing out leaflets in Jonesborough on Sunday last
Louth IFA’s Matthew McGreehan and Mick Larkin were distributing leaflets in Jonesborough recently aimed at stopping people from using scramblers and quads on the Cooley Mountains.
A campaign was recently launched by local residents to prevent the off road riding that is damaging the peninsula’s landscape. A stop mountain scramblers committee was formed, with Louth IFA chairman Matthew put in place to lead it.
Stop Mountain Scramblers is an alliance of farmers, walkers, conservationists and other interested parties who have come together as a result of the terrible and irreparable damage being done to livelihoods, the environment and the area’s heritage.
Matthew said: “The hills and mountains are such an appreciated area to local residents and tourists, and the scramblers and quads are just ruining the landscape and quality of the hills and mountains.
“We want to keep the area as well kept as we can and protect the sheep grazing them. We are appealing to those involved in the use of these scramblers and quads in the hills of North Louth and South Armagh to stop immediately. We also appeal to the parents of the younger people involved to get them to stop. It may appear to those involved that they are merely having some fun but what they are doing is dangerous, needless vandalism and illegal.”
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