A gorse fire which threatened several thousand acres of wood- lands on the south Galway- north Clare border yesterday was brought under control by the Galway Fire Service. Units from Loughrea and Portumna were called to Derrybrien Forest between Woodford and Gort at 2 p.m. and the fire was contained inside three hours.
A fire service source said that two to three acres of the young plantation were destroyed. "This is an annual event and can be caused by a number of factors and it is not necessarily a deliberate act by anyone."