Waterford council enlists goats for Ardmore cliff biodiversity project

Soona and Spike are helping in a month-long Ardmore scheme focused on three acres to clear gorse.

Waterford Council has recruited a team of goats to clear a mass of invasive gorse on Ardmore’s cliff top trail, in a pilot scheme aimed at protecting biodiversity through traditional intervention.

Those behind the project also hope to uncover remnants of stone signage built to advise German warplanes of Ireland’s neutrality during World War Two.