Rural Life
RSA urges landowners to cut hedgerows ahead of deadline
The Road Safety Authority (RSA) and the County and City Management Association (CCMA) are calling on landowners to cut their...
Rural Life
The Road Safety Authority (RSA) and the County and City Management Association (CCMA) are calling on landowners to cut their...
Rural Life
There have been “significant successes” against wildlife crime in 2023 with a series of “successful” prosecutions in the courts, the...
biodiversity
The open period for hedge cutting begins one week from today, with landowners permitted to cut hedges or ditches from...
Agri-Business
Farmers have been urged to get their chainsaws and hedge-cutting machinery serviced and ready to go for the hedge-cutting season...
Agri-Business
Two men from Co. Laois have been convicted and fined under the Wildlife Acts for the killing of protected wild...
Rural Life
Fire crews in counties Cork and Kerry have attended over 50 gorse fires in recent days, local authorities confirmed. Over...
Environment
Landowners are being reminded that the annual season for cutting hedges will come to a close next Wednesday, March 1....
Rural Life
Heritage minister, Malcolm Noonan has visited the site of an illegal 300ha fire in Wicklow Mountains National Park and announced...
Environment
A Laois man has been convicted and fined €6,000 for the destruction of hedgerow vegetation and trees containing birds’ nests,...
Rural Life
A farmer from Offaly was convicted and fined for destroying a hedgerow during the bird nesting season over the summer...
Rural Life
The window for hedge-cutting and burning is open from today, September 1, until February 28. The Wildlife Act 1976 prohibits...
Rural Life
Three people were fined for out-of-season hedge-cutting in Co. Westmeath today (Friday, March 26), the Department of Housing, Local Government...
Environment
There is a “zero tolerance” approach to the illegal cutting of hedges between March 1 and August 31 each year,...
Environment
The annual hedge-cutting ban under the Wildlife Act has resumed once again as of yesterday, Sunday, March 1, and will...
Rural Life
A farmer, who previously pleaded guilty to two counts under the Wildlife Act, has claimed that he shot three deer...