Environment

Row over €190m new road through landscape that inspired Heaney

Late poet had expressed opposition to road over damage to environment

31/08/2014: A procession walks from the graveside of Seamus Heaney in St. Marys Church, Bellaghy, to celebrate the life of the Nobel Laureate on the first anniversary of the death. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
31/08/2014: A procession walks from the graveside of Seamus Heaney in St. Marys Church, Bellaghy, to celebrate the life of the Nobel Laureate on the first anniversary of the death. Photograph: Alan Betson / The Irish Times
Mark Hilliard
Fri Sept 02 2016 - 09:04

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Mark Hilliard

Mark Hilliard

Mark Hilliard is a reporter with The Irish Times