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 ...

Over €28.7 million has been paid out to date under the Cessation of Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme, according to the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan. Minister ...

The Government has spent €28.7 million to date in compensating turf-cutters on raised boglands concentrated in the Midlands, Minister for Culture Josepha Madigan has confirmed. The expenditure, aimed ...

Gardaí in a white van observed from a distance as a token cutting operation proceeded at Moanveanlagh, outside Listowel, one of 53 Irish raised bogs on which turf-cutting is banned under an EU ...

Preparing for the All Ireland Turf Cutting Championships in Meedin bog in County Westmeath. In spite of new technology, traditional methods of turf cutting are tried and trusted and will take a long ...

When Bord na Móna announced this year that it was ending peat harvesting, it sparked fear among domestic turf cutters. We talk to those who feel a near-spiritual connection to the bog and worry that ...

Westmeath members of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA ) have called for a fairer deal to be awarded to turf cutters following the announcement by the Government on a compensation ...

North Kerry turf cutters are on tenterhooks ahead of the results of tests on Moanveanlagh Bog that should determine whether they can continue to cut there. Lorraine Courtney reports on efforts to ...

A turf cutter requires a licence to harvest peat from his land in a Tipperary bog designated a Natural Heritage Area (NHA), the High Court has ruled. However, Thomas Deegan will only have to pay his ...