Turning wetlands into fuel brings cheap energy to the countryside, but at a cost to ecosystems that trap carbon in the ground ...

By Clodagh Kilcoyne and Conor Humphries As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack ...

Cllr Caroline Dwane Stanley again raised the "dreadful" condition of the private lane to Togher Bog, at the May meeting of ...

A Birr man was sentenced to prison and disqualified from driving when he appeared on a summons for driving without insurance, ...

The unmistakable smell of the bog’s sweet earthiness hangs in the air as Gavin cuts rectangular sods of peat from the wetland that squelches beneath his feet. Gavin started cutting turf — the ...

The unmistakable smell of the bog’s sweet earthiness hangs in the air as Gavin cuts rectangular sods of peat from the wetland that squelches beneath his feet. Gavin started cutting turf — the ...

Conor O'Malley of Carrowteigue, Mayo, cuts turf at Kilgalligan bog. File picture: James Crombie/Inpho I can guarantee you that you’ve never heard silence like the silence of an Irish bog.

In the rural bog heartlands, turf cutters cleave to a tradition they see as part of an identity reaching back for generations. Swaths of the centre of Ireland contain so-called raised bogs that ...

There has been a complete cessation of turf-cutting on almost 80% of the raised bog SACs since 2011 and a reduction of almost 40% on 2022 turf cutting levels in 2023 on raised bogs. Further ...

He hasn’t had any official communication from anyone about his turf cutting and this particular strip of bog does not come under the Special Area of Conservation. “No. Nobody has been on to us.

Machine-cut turf logs lined up along Trista Bog in County Mayo.Credit...Paulo Nunes dos Santos for The New York Times The Irish government now has two months to put teeth into the laws and say how ...

More info Ireland has two months to stop cutting turf from protected bogs following ... Ireland's own National raised Bog Special Areas of Conservation Management plan for 2017-2022, admits ...