Rural Life
Fianna Fáil TDs and senators to call on Ryan to suspend turf sale ban
A number of TDs and senators from Fianna Fáil will formally call on Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon...
Rural Life
A number of TDs and senators from Fianna Fáil will formally call on Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications Eamon...
Rural Life
A proposed ban on the sale and distribution of turf from September is causing “severe stress” to homeowners, according to...
Rural Life
Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, has confirmed that a ban on the sale of turf will...
Agri-Business
The announcement by Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan, that a ban will be introduced on the sale...
Rural Life
Deputy Michael Collins and his Rural Independent Group have called on Taoiseach Micheál Martin to scrap any turf-cutting bans. The group...
Rural Life
A proposal to prohibit the sale and marketing of turf has caused a sense of disbelief and anger within rural...
Rural Life
An independent TD has claimed that the government wants to criminalise someone who sells a bag of turf. Roscommon-Galway deputy...
Rural Life
The sale and distribution of turf will be banned from September, under proposed regulations by the Minister for the Environment,...
Agri Politics
A call has been made by one TD for traditional peat harvesting to be “recognised as a cultural practice protected...
Rural Life
The government is being urged to provide protection for turf cutting as a ‘cultural practice’ under EU or international regulation....
Environment
Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice met with the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications, Eamon Ryan and some of his senior...
Environment
A fine amounting to €5,000 was issued to an individual for illegal turf-cutting on a bog deemed to be a...
Rural Life
It has been advised that licensed turf cutting cannot recommence on Bord na Móna bogs over 30ha at this time...
Rural Life
Clarity has been secured in relation to the cutting of domestic turf during the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been confirmed....
Rural Life
An Bord Peanála’s “indecision” on a Bord na Móna (BNM) peat extraction application has been described as “scandalous” by independent...
Rural Life
Four men have been found not guilty of illegal turf-cutting on protected sites in the west, according to local reports...
Environment
Proposals to ban “burning turf and timber in every fireplace in the country” have been slated by the Irish Cattle...
Rural Life
“The madness continues in Dáil Éireann,” says independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice – who claims that both Fianna Fáil and Fine...