Rural Life
Contractor and landowner fined for hedge-cutting during nesting season
An agricultural contractor and a landowner have both been issued fines and ordered to pay legal costs, having pleaded guilty...
Rural Life
An agricultural contractor and a landowner have both been issued fines and ordered to pay legal costs, having pleaded guilty...
Rural Life
Landowners have been reminded that they are obliged to ensure that hedges, trees, ditches and other vegetation growing on their...
Rural Life
A new contractor hedge-cutting and biodiversity event is currently being organised for the autumn, according to the Association of Farm...
Machinery
Farmers have until the end of February to carry out hedge-cutting on their land. As ground stands in relatively good...
Rural Life
There is “massive anger and frustration within rural communities” over news that recent changes to the Heritage Act will not...
Environment
A ban on hedgecutting is set to come into effect at the start of next month, as has been the...
Rural Life
Mayo County Council is planning to step up its awareness campaign this year at the start of September to remind...
Environment
Fianna Fail has been criticised by the IFA for its proposal to introduce changes to the Heritage Bill, which will restrict...
Environment
A total of 27 wild fires were recorded by the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) during the bird nesting season in...
Environment
The hedgecutting and gorse burning ban will come into effect this week. As of March 1 hedgecutting and gorse burning...
Rural Life
Tonight’s episode of Ear to the Ground will feature a remote valley in Co. Mayo, issues around hedgecutting periods and...
Rural Life
The proposed changes to the Heritage Bill, to allow hedgecutting in August on a pilot basis, would only allow the...
Environment
The hedgecutting argument is skewed in favour of a small minority of farmers, according to Green Party Senator Grace O’Sullivan....
Environment
Ahead of the Seanad’s debate on the Heritage Bill on Wednesday, the Irish Wildlife Trust has called on people to...
Environment
Clare County Council has received 21 applications from landowners and contractors to cut local hedgerows under the Community Hedgecutting Grant Scheme....
N.Ireland
A farmer in Co. Down had a ‘lucky escape’ after the tractor he was driving overturned in a field while...
Environment
Changes to the current legislation around hedgecutting and gorse burning might not happen until after Christmas as the Heritage Bill...
Environment
The hedgecutting season opens this week and runs from September 1 until March 1, allowing farmers to manage hedges around...