Grow your own vegetables and recycling scrap metal feature in stories from Ballina in County Mayo.
Members of Moyne Macra na Feirme in Ballina have planted a number of shrubs supplied by Ballina Urban Council. They are also working on a way to cut down on imported vegetables.
They've started a grow your own market gardening project.
On a quarter of an acre of land at Quay Road, they are cultivating potatoes, cabbages, onions, carrots and turnips. The plan is to sell the produce in local shops, and if this venture proves successful, Macra hopes to extend the scheme in 1986.
On Garden Street in Ballina two Welshmen Kerry and Myles Brown are making a pit stop on their cycling trip across Ireland for some windsurfing. They are towing sailboards on homemade trailers created from recycled TV ariels and parts of old lawnmowers and bicycles.
The trailers cost them about £3, which makes for a cheap holiday.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 26 June 1985. The reporter is David Pate.
