THE Independent TD and turfcutting representative, Michael Fitzmaurice, has said that he is not overly-concerned as regards new restrictions to be introduced curtailing the advertisement of...
TURF-CUTTING on Irish bogs has been given the go-ahead over the coming weeks after the National Parks and Wildlife Service decided that it was an agricultural...
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...
Fears that turf-cutting is about to be banned at an additional 28 bogs across the county are being expressed at a series of meetings across the...
Essential Garda resources are being deployed to bogs across County Galway to prevent turf being cut – but it is taking officers away from their normal...
Defiant turf-cutters called for the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to be disbanded and Minister for Heritage Jimmy Deenihan to resign when up to 200...
