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Off-Roading and the law

  • 05-08-2010 10:12pm
    #1
    urtooky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭


    Heard the start of a piece earlier on the Last Word about 4x4's, quads, and enduro being banned from alot of our forests.

    Anyone hear it all and can bring us up to speed?


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  • #2
    101sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,884 ✭✭✭101sean


    Off road activity has been banned at a number of sensitive locations.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/gormley-bans-offroad-bikes-to-protect-land-2282779.html

    The 13 sites choosen are designated “Natura 2000” sites by the EU and require a high level of environmental protection. The 13 are:

    - The Raven SAC, Wexford;
    - Blackstairs Mountains SAC, Wexford/Carlow;
    - Wicklow Mountains SAC,Wicklow/Dublin;
    - Kilpatrick Sandhills SAC, Wexford;
    - Cahore Dunes Polder SAC Cahore Marshes SPA, Wexford;
    - Slieve Blooms SAC, SPA, Laois/Offaly;
    - Carlingford Mountain Louth;
    - Ballyness Bay SAC, Donegal;
    - Gweedore Bay Islands SAC Donegal;
    - Castlemaine Harbour SAC, SPA (including Inch Strand) Kerry;
    - Galtee Mountains SAC Limerick/Tipperary;
    - Slieve Bearnagh SAC Clare;
    - Slieve Aughty SPA Galway/Clare.

    The regulations are not aimed at agricultural or other working use of quad bikes and other similar off-road vehicles or their use by the security and emergency services


  • #3
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    Here's some bedtime reading on the subject:
    S.I. No. 293/2010 — European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) (Control of Recreational Activities) Regulations 2010.

    Sleep well :D


  • #4
    urtooky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32 ✭urtooky


    thanks, looks like I will be late to bed tonight.


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