Darren Sweeney

It becomes a very hot topic if you bring it up in the local shop.

We've had some issues in the past with regards

the location of these developments, and I say developments meaning wind farms and also plantations with peat slippages.

The community is concerned mainly about the habitats that are there, first of all.

I suppose we have

you know, it's a pristine environment we have.

It's untouched.

It is a carbon sink in itself because it's peatland.

So it is already doing the job of achieving some of our targets towards net zero.

Second to that, there's some real life issues associated as well.

Like I'm, you know, we're sparsely populated, but there are some, there's a lot of anguish with locals.

You know, there is,

there's, I suppose, the flicker that's associated with the turbines themselves.

They're very real.

We have some turbines local already.

That's something, the noise is a major issue.

The effect that it has on the species that are there.

So we have, you know, for example, there are approximately 100 mating hen harrier birds in Ireland.

We are home to two or three of those couples.

So there are a lot of real life habitual