Matt Corbett reckons the best thing about cutting turf is that you get to disappear into silence for the day. From early April to June, locals driving the narrow Connemara road past Carna towards ...

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.

Minister of State Ossian Smyth has said he was surprised and alarmed when he heard comments by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar that proposals on turf cutting could be paused. “Paused was not the right word” as ...

European officials have raised "serious concerns" about continued illegal turf-cutting in Ireland and urged people to stop doing it. As four men charged in connection with cutting turf on a special ...

Monivea: Some say big new turf-cutting machines are a threat to biodiversity Ireland's remote boglands have become the unlikely battleground for a campaign of open defiance against Irish and European ...

Defiant turf cutters have claimed they won a battle against officials, but not the war. One man was arrested and another taken to hospital when his machinery was destroyed by fire as a stand-off ...

Turf cutters in the Republic of Ireland have been warned they face legal action if they cut turf on protected bogs this weekend. Fifty three turf bogs are protected under the EU Habitats Directive.

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.