{"id":35341,"date":"2023-01-13T18:13:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35341"},"modified":"2023-01-13T18:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T18:13:48","slug":"ihbc-signposts-bbc-on-film-looking-after-thousands-of-northern-irelands-abandoned-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35341","title":{"rendered":"IHBC signposts BBC on film: \u2018Looking after thousands of Northern Ireland&#8217;s abandoned mines\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=65162515\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35342\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Coalisland_Co._Tyrone_37530514930_commons_wikimedia_national_library_ireland.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>There are more than 2,500 abandoned mines dotted across Northern Ireland, and BBC News NI was granted access to one outside Templepatrick in County Antrim.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration By <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=65162515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Library of Ireland<\/a> on The Commons &#8211; Square, Coalisland, Co. Tyrone<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC News writes:<\/p>\n<p>BBC News NI was granted access to one [mine] outside Templepatrick in County Antrim.<\/p>\n<p>The Department for the Economy now owns and monitors all abandoned mines in Northern through an online interactive map.<\/p>\n<p>The last coal mine closed in Coalisland, County Tyrone, in 1970.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av\/uk-northern-ireland-63993263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are more than 2,500 abandoned mines dotted across Northern Ireland, and BBC News NI was granted access to one outside Templepatrick in County Antrim. image: for illustration By National Library of Ireland on The Commons &#8211; Square, Coalisland, Co. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35341\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35343,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35341\/revisions\/35343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}