A GALWAY Minister of State – and a turf cutter – has said this week that the ban on the sale of turf must be paused...
Country Living with Francis Farragher There is a very deep-seated relationship in country areas, and even in small towns, between people and those browny/purple strips of...
World of Politics with Harry McGee One of my most enjoyable days as a journalist was spent in the bogs above Indreabhán cutting turf with two...
ANOTHER ‘rural revolt’ could be on the way after it emerged this week that Green Party Minister, Eamon Ryan, is to ban the sale and distribution...
Anyone who sells a bag of turf to their neighbour from September onwards faces fines of up to €5,000 – equivalent to that of a drug...
COUNTRY LIVING WITH FRANCIS FARRAGHER I’ve never quite made up my mind as to whether I love or hate the bog . . . the answer...
A local community responded in force to the death of one of their own – a man who had given so much of his life for...
SEVERAL hundred bog owners who joined the Turf Cutting Cessation Scheme are still waiting for their 2019 payments which are now running about two to three...
