The Irish Times

Leitrim has the shortest coastline of any county in Ireland and might have been expected to take steps to protect it. Instead, the area around Tullaghan is becoming "saturated" with one-off houses, according to Mr Ian Lumley, heritage officer of An Taisce. This "rampant development", as he calls it, is being fuelled by the availability of tax incentives under the Rural Renewal Scheme, which covers Leitrim and Longford as well as parts of Sligo, Roscommon and Cavan. And, of course, there is no plan to regulate the impact.