Key stretch of road closing for tree felling works

Tuesday, 22 September 2015 00:00

A stretch of road will be closed from today to allow trees infected with Dutch Elm disease to be felled.

The Peel to Ramsey road will be closed from the Switchback to Ballabooie Road for three days between 9.30am and 3.30pm.

Jimmy Lee is from the Department of Environment Food and Agriculture - he says they have to act as soon as infected trees are identified:

He says the forests are constantly being monitored to prevent any serious outbreaks:

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