SaveOurSperrins

About Save Our Sperrins

Welcome to the official channel of Save Our Sperrins — a grassroots campaign protecting the Sperrin Mountains in Northern Ireland from the threat of industrial gold mining.

We are local residents, farmers, artists, environmental defenders, and ordinary people standing together to safeguard our clean water, pure air, healthy soil, and ancient landscapes. With over 27% of the North now covered by prospecting licences, our fight is urgent—and growing.

Here you’ll find:
• First-hand stories from the frontline
• Updates from the campaign and Public Inquiry
• Educational explainers on mining, biodiversity, and legal rights
• Solidarity messages from global movements
• Creative resistance: music, art, poetry, and protest

This is more than a local issue. It’s about who gets to decide the future of our land—and who benefits.

Subscribe, share, and join us. Because once the land is gone, it’s gone.

#No.28 One Landscape, One Fight: Cross-Border Resistance to Fracking & Mining

#No.27 Raised by the Hills – A Conversation with Kelan Grant

#No.26 Business, Human Rights and the Battle for Accountability a Conversation with Chris O Connell

#No.26 Business, Human Rights and the Battle for Accountability a Conversation with Chris O Conne...

#No.25 How Small Food Producers Strengthen a Rural Economy: Dart Mountain Cheese

#No.24 UK Critical Minerals Strategy 2035: What It Means for Communities and the Environment

#No.23 Dr Steven H. Emerman – The Science of Failure: Truth, Risk, and Responsibility

#No.22 Mining the Truth: A Conversation with Lynda Sullivan

#No.21 Butterlope Farm – A Different Kind of Progress

#No.20 From the Sperrins to COP 30: Dr Lorna Gold on Caring for Creation

# No 19. Sacred Sperrins Living Land :A Conversation with Kerry McCory

#No.18 Frontlines of Justice:James Orr on Power, Place and the Politics of Extraction

#No.17Divided by Gold, Rooted in Place: Emma Conway on Family, Land and Belonging

#No.16 Hope is a Luxury, Resistance is Intergenerational – Gerry McGovern Speaks Out

#No. 14 Sinéad Ní Mhearnóg : Language, Community and Courage

#No. 15 Sinéad Ní Mhearnóg : Language, Community and Courage

#No.13 Law, Land, and Justice: Dr Amy Strecker on the Sperrins

#No.14 Law, Land, and Justice: Dr Amy Strecker on the Sperrins

#No.13 Council Stands with the People, Not Dalradian

#No.12 Dancing with the Earth: Mary McGuiggan on Rights of Nature and Connection

#No.11 Hard-Earned Wisdom from Navan: A Conversation with Nuala and Mairéad Heaney