TERRY ENRIGHT:West Belfast environmentalist and community worker Terry Enright, who has died in his native city, worked for many years to bridge divisions in the community. His greatest contribution was as an environmental campaigner, dedicated to preserving the Belfast Hills, the Divis and the Black Mountain on the west of the city, which had been a green lung for the working-class communities of west Belfast.
At the outset of the Troubles the army prevented access; a major quarry was allowed to remove a slice of the Black Mountain, and the dumping of waste was allowed.
Enright's campaign resulted in the National Trust buying the hills and opening them up to the public.
As a community worker, he worked to deal with antisocial behaviour. He opposed Republican paramilitary kneecappings, working both with the wider community and with the marginalised young people.
He helped found the Upper Springfield Resource Centre, the InterAction Trust, and the Save the Black Mountain campaign. Tragically, he also had to help found the Terry Enright Foundation, a cross-community group, after his son, also Terry, was murdered by the Loyalist Volunteer Force in 1997.
Born in March 1944, he was the second-youngest of eight children to taxi driver Willie John Enright and Kathleen (née Doherty), and was raised in the Beechmount area. He was educated at St Paul's Primary School and St Patrick's Secondary School.
He left school at 16 to serve an apprenticeship as a baker, working for 20 years in Kennedy's Bakery in west Belfast where he was shop steward for the Bakers' Union. When it closed he moved into community work.
He was interned in Long Kesh in the early 1970s. In 1974 he was there when the army fired CR gas at protesting prisoners, the only time the gas was used in the North. It has been linked to cancer deaths among that group of prisoners. He is survived by wife, Mary, and sons Liam, Niall and Feargal.