Opinion: while turf cutting may be part of our culture, the long-term benefits of protecting bogs outweighs the benefits of cheap fuel Nowhere does the gap between rural and urban Ireland seem to be ...
BOG CONSERVATION measures have come into effect with the banning of turf-cutting in 32 raised bogs, mainly in the midlands region. Minister for Environment John Gormley yesterday confirmed the ending ...
More than €1.5 million has been paid to some 1,000 turf-cutters in the controversial compensation scheme for the protection of 53 raised bogs. Those whose turbary rights are on the affected bogs ...
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has been meeting with turf-cutters to compensate them for having to cease cutting turf on protected bogs. However it has come to light that turf-cutters ...
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