COUNTRY LIVING WITH FRANCIS FARRAGHER I’ve never quite made up my mind as to whether I love or hate the bog . . . the answer...
Country Living with Francis Farragher IN the greater scale of things, it’s certainly not a first-world problem, but the other evening, within an hour or so...
Environmentalists such as former president Mary Robinson should stop flying around the world adding to the carbon footprint instead of dancing on the grave of Bord...
As communities along the Galway/Tipperary border come to terms with two separate water tragedies this week, questions have been asked as to why the Portumna Fire...
Owners of designated bogs in County Galway have vowed to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising – by cutting turf! Campaigners are adamant they...
New evidence uncovered by an international geologist shows that Connemara is slowly drowning at sea. Because while rising sea levels are a factor globally, what is...
The Department of Heritage has begun negotiations with bog owners in Galway as part of a purchase scheme for turf-cutters displaced from their own designated bogs....
Members of the Gardaí were present as turf cutting machines defied the law again in Galway in the early hours of Sunday morning last. The machines...
