Forestry
A county councillor has called for a taskforce to carry out work to remove ash trees affected by ash dieback along roadsides.
Rural Life
Paddy Mangan has donated thousands of saplings nationwide, after seeing the wide interest in people looking to grow native trees
An independent review is to be carried out into the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine's (DAFM) ash dieback support scheme.
A TD has claimed the failure of the government to bring forward "pragmatic solutions" to the ash dieback crisis is a "monumental own goal".
The chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture has said that he is confident there will be progress made on the ash dieback issue.
Environment
The IFA is calling for a scheme to be established to assist farmers who have been affected by the ash tree disease Ash Dieback.
There are 450,000 hurleys produced in Ireland every year and 80% of those are made from imported ash, according to Michael Somers Forestry Development Officer with Teagasc
