Forestry
Pre-tax profits at Coillte fell by more than €60 million last year
Pre-tax profits at the semi-state forestry company, Coillte, slumped by more than €60 million to €61.5 million for 2023 according...
Forestry
Pre-tax profits at the semi-state forestry company, Coillte, slumped by more than €60 million to €61.5 million for 2023 according...
Forestry
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has spent a total of €37.8 million on afforestation during the...
Forestry
Coillte has said it will engage with stakeholders, including Galway County Council, to “work through” potential options to deliver on...
Forestry
Ireland South MEP Billy Kelleher has called for an urgent review of the Forestry Strategy to ensure the country meets...
Agri-Business
A study conducted by the University of Oxford has concluded that bats can be “valuable allies” for farmers by feeding...
Forestry
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has issued 145 afforestation licences so far this year, relating to...
Forestry
Last week the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine issued the fewest afforestation licences of any single week this...
Forestry
Coillte has been refused permission by Galway County Council to fell 343ha of its conifer plantation in Connemara for peatland...
Forestry
Western Forestry Co-op CEO, Marina Conway has announced that she will step down after 11 years to “hand over the...
Forestry
An independent TD has described a “rot” in the current government’s progress with the private forestry sector. Independent TD for...
Forestry
An area of 945ha has been approved for afforestation by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) so...
Forestry
Forestry Industries Ireland (FII) has said that Ireland’s “once large scale” commercial forestry model has become “side-tracked” and is becoming...
Forestry
Independent TD Michael Lowry told the Dáil that 2023 saw the lowest amount of land planted for forestry since 1946....
Forestry
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is to carry out a sample review of property sales in...
Forestry
Sinn Féin spokesperson for agriculture, Claire Kerrane has slammed the government’s failure to deliver a strategy to address ash dieback....
Forestry
Minister of State with responsibility for land use and biodiversity at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM),...
Agri-Business
MEPs on the agriculture committee of the European Parliament have today (Tuesday, March 19), proposed changes to the rules on...
Forestry
Vivienne Jupp has been appointed as the new chair designate of Coillte to succeed the outgoing chair, Bernie Gray. Jupp...