'The trees are coming down for no apparent reason.'
A row of 200-year-old Newry oak trees is being cut down leaving a man who grew up playing under their branches devastated.
The 78-year-old said: “The Rivers Agency are adamant they are going to go ahead with this plan and that they are determined to take the trees down. Eamon blames a fault with the sluice gates getting jammed with a barrel before the flood eight years ago. “I would make an appeal to John O’Dowd, the minister who is overseeing the final decision - could he please consider not cutting these trees down. For far too long, Ireland through colonialism was robbed of its trees, stripped of everything and these trees are very much Irish trees that’s left.
A spokesperson for the Department for Infrastructure said: “The removal of the trees is necessary to allow the construction and operation of a floodwall to provide effective protection to reduce the effects of flooding for businesses within the Greenbank Industrial Estate, Newry.
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