MORE than £9 million of public money has been spent maintaining the Strangford ferry service in the past six years. It has cost the Department for Regional Development (DRD) an average of £1.5m per ...

THE Strangford Lough ferry service resumed on Wednesday after it was suspended to allow for repair work to its two vessels. The service is run by the Department for Infrastructure, which said one of ...

From Monday, the Strangford ferry, which links the southern tip of the Ards Peninsula in Portaferry with Strangford village on the Lecale peninsula will be suspended for five weeks. This is to allow ...

Prices for the Strangford ferry last went up around 18 months ago, though the hikes were far greater; a single trip’s cost ...

People who depend on the Strangford Ferry are afraid price hikes won’t stop, after the second rise in two years.

A new £6m replacement Strangford ferry remains tied up in County Down because problems with the ramps mean vehicles are unable to drive off it. The ramps on the vessel, which was specifically built ...

Strangford Lough is an increasingly popular location for tourists and this year it saw record numbers of another type of visitor – the grey seal. The largest sea inlet anywhere in the UK or Ireland is ...

A ferry costing £6m has not sailed between Strangford and Portaferry since March 2022. MV Strangford II was brought into service in 2017 but the Department of Infrastructure said it was not sailing ...

Members of the public have been asked to "keep their eyes peeled" around Strangford Lough after a mother and calf were rescued from a sandbank. The alarm was raised at the north side of the Lough on ...

Before the election, Strangford had been mooted as a constituency where the DUP may have been in trouble. The opposite proved to be the case; in a difficult election night for the DUP, Strangford was ...

Between 1986 and 1989, the age structure and growth of thick-lipped grey mullet in Strangford Lough were studied. Due to secondary growth, obscuring the innermost annuli, ages estimated from scales ...

The ramps will have to be modified before it can be used A new £6m replacement Strangford ferry remains tied up in County Down because problems with the ramps mean vehicles are unable to drive off it.