GALWAY TURFCUTTERS PROTEST AT LOUGHREA TREATY MEETING

Date Published: 23-May-2012

Galway turfcutters claim they are being intimidated by low flying aircraft that are checking to see if the turf cutting ban is being adhered to.

Up to 50 turfcutters gathered in protest in Loughrea last evening [May 22] where the European Affairs Minister was officiated at a meeting.

Minister Lucinda Creighton was addressing a public meeting and Q&A session on the upcoming referendum on the European Fiscal Treaty.

The group has now cut turf in Barroughter, Ardraigue and Killimor raised boglands and began working on Clonmoylan at the weekend.

Speaking to Galway Bay FM news, Dermot Moran of the local bogs action group says

turfcutters asked the Minister to intervene against the EU ban