The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has been meeting with turf-cutters to compensate them for having to cease cutting turf on protected bogs. However it has come to light that turf-cutters ...

Turf cutters from South Sligo setting off for the protest at the Dáil last week. TURF CUTTERS, farmers and home owners in south rural Sligo decided to join a nationwide protest outised Dàil Eireann ...

More than €1.5 million has been paid to some 1,000 turf-cutters in the controversial compensation scheme for the protection of 53 raised bogs. Those whose turbary rights are on the affected bogs ...

Sir, The Turf Cutters and Contractors Association believes that small scale domestic turf cutting and active raised bog habitat conservation can co-exist and that the Government's compensation package ...

Environment Minister John Gormley insisted he had no choice but to protect the natural habitat by imposing the restrictions. The new ban on non-commercial turf cutting will apply to 32 raised bog ...

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RTE said more than 100 turf cutters have gathered in County Galway and police are at the scene Irish turf cutters have been staging protests against a European law barring them from cutting the bog.

RTE said more than 100 turf cutters have gathered in County Galway and police are at the scene Irish turf cutters have been staging protests against a European law barring them from cutting the bog.