Designate the Mourne Mountains as a National Park.

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Designate the Mourne Mountains as a National Park, with all the protections that such would entail.

The Mourne Mountains are an hugely important fixture of the Irish landscape: intrinsically tied to the mythology of the Ulster Cycle, one of the oldest works of literature in Europe, and also made famous in modern song through the works of Percy French. NMD are obsessed with an incredibly unpopular policy of the farcically-named ‘Gondola’ project which would pollute the skyline of mountains with needless cable car. Having failed to build this in Newcastle, they now want to put it in Rostrevor.

Why it was rejected

It was about a matter for a local council or devolved government, not the UK Government or Parliament.

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Timeline

30 May 2025	Petition opened for signatures
1 Jul 2025	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 1 Jul 2025

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