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The last relief flight in Dromara Hills, County Down as an RAF Chinook makes the final drop of emergency food supplies for animals cut-off by the deep snow drifts, on March 29, 2013. All air support has now been withdrawn from the relief operation to animals stranded in the snow in Northern Ireland. RAF Chinook and Irish Air Corps helicopters had been dropping emergency food supplies to farms in high-ground areas of counties Antrim and Down. The Department of Agriculture said it was now re-directing resources to the ground. DUP MLA Paul Frew has said it is too soon to end aerial support. “This has always been about speed and the helicopters and the Chinooks would be able to speedily get to those farmers and those livestock far quicker than any snow plough or track machine”, he said. “This decision by the Department of Agriculture minister will cost farmers more livestock”. The helicopters made food drops to thousands of animals stranded, mostly in the Glens of Antrim, which has been one of the areas worst affected by the snow. (Photo by Alan Lewis)
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