This is the first post in the blog of Anton McCabe, Omagh-based freelance journalist and writer. It is short: I hope future posts keep to that pattern.

There are two planning applications for wind farms advertised in today's Tyrone Constitution: one near Trillick, one near Castlederg.

Are there just too many wind farms in West Tyrone? The public is becoming increasingly anxious. This morning, I went for a four-mile walk in the countryside on the edge of Omagh. Whichever way I looked, I could see a wind farm. Is that, maybe, just too visually intrusive?