THE decision by the state owned forestry company Coillte ‘to act as an agent on behalf of foreign and national investment funds’ to acquire 30,000 acres...
Galway County Council is to urge the Office of Public Works (OPW) to purchase the gate lodge of Portumna Castle instead of it passing into private...
An elderly couple are living in fear that their home could be destroyed by a forest fire which has been smouldering for the past six weeks....
Several arrests have been made, and more are imminent after the Loughrea region narrowly avoided a Cloosh Valley-style disaster. Gardaí are issuing a warning for the...
THE fall-out from last week’s forest fire in the Cloosh Valley will take a generation to repair. This week, Coillte and wildlife experts have been counting...
THE biggest forest and gorse fire in the history of the State at Cloosh Valley near Oughterard could now wipe out nearly 10,000 acres of trees...
The developers of Galway Wind Park in Connemara have pledged to spend millions of euro on local community organisations over the next 25 years. SSE and...
Coillte is planning to kill up to 80 wild mountain goats in Connemara. The national forestry agency says it plans to cull a “huge herd” of...
