£332K allocated to help Mournes recover following wild fire

A handout file photo dated April 24, 2021, taken with permission from the Twitter feed of @DeeJayDready of a gorse fire on the Mourne Mountains in the Slieve Donard area. Picture: DeeJay Dready/PA

Over £330,000 (€390,000) has been allocated to aid the recovery of the Mourne Mountains following a major wild fire earlier this year.

The blaze wreaked destruction in April and took firefighters several days to extinguish.