Turf cutters in the Republic of Ireland were warned they faced legal action if they cut turf on protected bogs over the Easter weekend following the protection of 53 turf bogs under the EU Habitats ...
THE State is to spend more than €11m compensating bog-owners who will be banned from cutting turf from the end of this year. Environment Minister Phil Hogan yesterday announced details of a ...
The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge by two turf cutters relating to how EU habitats law was transposed into Irish law. Gerry Gearty and Sean Beirne, both with addresses in Eddercloone, Carrick ...
Ireland has been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union by the European Commission “for failure to apply the Habitats Directive (Directive 92/43/EEC) to protect sites designated for ...
It's a “farce” that Ireland is being taken to the European Union’s highest court over the failure to stop illegal peat cutting, an opposition TD has said. The European Commission announced that it has ...
Strips of peat from ancient bogs provide fuel—and lots of controversy—for rural farmers in Ireland. (Photo by Kari Lydersen) COUNTY MAYO, IRELAND — On the fog-enshrouded, windswept Atlantic coast of ...
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