Environment
40% reduction in turf cutting on raised bogs in 2023 - department
Turf cutting on raised bogs in 2023 was down by almost 40% when compared with the previous year, the Department...
Environment
Turf cutting on raised bogs in 2023 was down by almost 40% when compared with the previous year, the Department...
Environment
The Gearagh in Co. Cork, which is an important woodland and nature reserve, is receiving support to be made into...
Environment
A private company has been convicted and fined for damaging works at a sensitive habitats areas in Co. Kildare in...
Agri Politics
The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers’ Association (INHFA) is seeking a tax exemption for all payments farmers receive under various...
Environment
The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers’ Association (INHFA) has said that all land designations in Ireland need to be renegotiated....
Agri-Business
The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers’ Association (INHFA) has said that “the negative impact” of designated land on farmers must...
Rural Life
By Anne Lucey Serious damage was caused to a wet heath habitat in a remote area near the Gap of...
Environment
The illegal use of scrambler bikes within the Wicklow Mountains Special Area of Conservation (SAC) has resulted in convictions and...
biodiversity
The team within the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) that is responsible for representing its members on designated lands has called...
Rural Life
The Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) has raised concerns that new EU land designations will have “major implications...
Rural Life
Efforts to try and prevent the granting of a prospecting licence in Connemara for gold and silver are well and...
Agri Politics
We are the greenest farmers in Ireland and we are the most punished. These were the sentiments expressed by suckler...
Agri Politics
Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan has been called on to ensure farmers with designated Natura land...
Environment
A west Limerick resident has claimed this week that “serious questions” need to be asked after it emerged there are...
Environment
The Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has a role in relation to the conservation of habitats and species...
Agri Politics
Farmers and landowners whose lands were designated under Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) are close to reaching a compensation deal...
Agri Politics
The chairman of the Shannon Action Committee, Charlie Killeen, is calling for a permanent payment in return for the permanent...
Agri Politics
Charlie Killeen, a farmer from Meelick, Co. Galway – an area of picturesque rural Irish landscape along the River Shannon...