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Mining Inquiry collapses

January 27, 2025 Anton McCabe (Militant Left, Omagh)

A public planning inquiry into a proposed mine at Greencastle in the Central Sperrins was adjourned after three days. The Northern Ireland Department for Infrastructure failed in its legal duty to consult the Southern Government. […]

Ireland-North

Corporate Extractivism on the Rise in Border Areas

October 28, 2022 Cllr Donal O'Cofaigh

Originally published in ‘Militant Left’ Edition 5, Summer 2022 Over recent years, communities in Fermanagh, Leitrim and Tyrone have faced a series of threats from highly-polluting industries seeking to exploit underground mineral resources for private […]

Ireland-North

Anti-mining protests continue in Tyrone

December 1, 2021 Militant Left Reporter

Over 100 protestors gathered on a bitterly cold Sunday at the Cavancaw goldmine, on the side of a mountain above Omagh. Protestors from Leitrim, Derry and Monaghan joined campaigners from Tyrone. Canadian mining company Flintridge […]

Ireland-North

Fermanagh and Omagh Council – an undemocratic shambles

November 4, 2021 Anton McCabe

The Sinn Féin chair of a shambolic meeting of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council has excluded independent anti-goldmining Councillor Emmet McAleer from a Council meeting. During most of the meeting, he only called party colleagues. […]

Ireland-North

Mockery of democracy: Corporate Gold-miners get green light

August 9, 2021 Anton McCabe

Mining company Flintridge Resources will be allowed to drill boreholes as ‘permitted development’. They will be round a controversial goldmine at Cavanacaw, four miles upwind of Omagh town centre. The five establishment parties allowed this […]

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