Official launch of planting of 12,000 trees by Carrick-on-Shannon rail line

The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture is visiting a plot of land at Carrick-on-Shannon in Co Roscommon today where 12,000 native trees will be planted.

The ten and a half acre site is part of the Creation of Woodland on Public Lands scheme, with woodland and ecology specialists, Veon.

Iarnród Éireann is the first state organisation to successfully engage with the scheme and the trees will be planted adjacent to the railway line outside Carrick-on-Shannon.