Gearagh woodlands - World heritage site for Co Cork

The campaign by Sinn Féin MEP Liadh Ní Riada for the Gearagh Woodlands in the Upper Lee Valley of Cork to be designated a Unesco World Heritage Site is a neat idea. It is, as she says, “a unique and ecologically important area of outstanding natural beauty and diversity.”

We already have three such sites on the island of Ireland – the Neolithic chamber tombs at Brú na Bóinne, in Co Meath, the magical Giants Causeway in Co Antrim and the majestic Skellig Michael off the coast of Kerry.