Rare river forest destroyed in post-Ophelia clean-up

A rare and magnificent nature reserve was transformed into a wildlife graveyard in a crude post-storm clean-up, reports author and ecologist Kevin Corcoran.

Formed at the end of the last ice age, the Gearagh is the very last intact primeval river forest left in the whole of Western Europe, surviving due to its fortuitous location on an expansive and bizarre inland delta on the middle section of the River Lee in Co Cork.