A legal adviser for Europe’s top court found Ireland failed to protect some of its most valuable peat bogs, moving the ...
Photographer Shane Hynan explores the tension between the central role peat bogs play in Irish life and their wider environmental impact ...
Ireland has been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union by the European Commission “for failure to apply the Habitats Directive (Directive 92/43/EEC) to protect sites designated for ...
This is the rural heartland of Mullagh in east Galway and farmers have no time for basking in the heatwave. They are out ...
Ireland is being taken to court by the European Commission for failing to stop turf-cutting on protected bogs. The decision to refer the issue to the EU Court of Justice comes after 13 years of ...
John Dore, spokesman for the Kildare Turf Cutters Association, says Irish government plans to restrict peat sales are opposed in rural parts of the country ...
Sir, I write on behalf of Butterfly Conservation Ireland regarding an article that appeared in your paper last week, headed 'EU Turf-cutting ban will prove fatal for rare butterfly', in which reporter ...
It's being called the 'end of an era:' In 2019, Bord Na Móna will begin to close 62 bogs across Ireland. Tom Donnellan, the chief executive of Bord Na Móna, recently announced that the company was to ...