Irish rebel over lighthouse LED makeover

Proposals to install low-energy devices in seven coastal beacons in the north and the Irish republic have angered campaigners.

They fear an that environmental push towards low energy will extinguish a loom that stretches across the Irish Sea, draining beauty from the nocturnal landscape.

Campaigners say that the Commissioners of Irish Lights, a cross-border body that manages lighthouses in Northern Ireland and the republic, is on the verge of vandalising St John’s Point, a masterpiece of Victorian engineering that towers 40 metres over a rocky headland in County Down.