Sir, – In “A rural scene that’s dead and gone” accompanying a 1983 photograph of a manual turf-cutter, Arminta Wallace summarises the current impasse on boglands as: “The thing is, it’s not wrong to ...

A turf cutter described Tuesday as “a great day for rural Ireland” after a case against him and three other men accused of cutting turf on EU-protected bogs in east Co Galway collapsed due to a lack ...