ABSTRACT
Enda Craig and Bev Doherty live on the anvil-shaped Inishowen peninsula in Donegal. Locally they are known as "green" people, concerned environmentalists, worried about pollution and its effects on human health and on the natural world. Craig is a member of the Greencastle and Moville Environmental group. Doherty is chair of the Inishowen Environmental group. For years both groups have been "beating their heads off a brick wall" trying to convince their neighbours and anyone who will listen that there is a problem with pollution on the peninsula and in the Foyle lough and river. In January 1991 events shaped by state policy brought their worst fears about local pollution into perspective.1
