A row of 200-year-old Newry oak trees is being cut down leaving a man who grew up playing under their branches devastated.
The mature trees at Greenbank Industrial Estate are being axed as part of NI flood defence work that will ultimately claim 426 trees across three schemes, including Belfast and Newcastle.
Pensioner Eamon Burke and others in the community have been campaigning for months to try and save the trees in Newry.
