TURF CUTTERS in Co Galway have vowed to continue to cut turf until everyone in their area without fuel is supplied, after they returned to Clonmoylan bog yesterday and defied an EU directive not to ...
Matt Corbett reckons the best thing about cutting turf is that you get to disappear into silence for the day. From early April to June, locals driving the narrow Connemara road past Carna towards ...
The Government may have been eyeing a turf-cutting ban but fears over a winter energy crisis have actually fuelled a “stampede” to the bogs for back-up fuel reserves. Indeed, some turf-cutters in ...