has covered much of rural Ireland and every farmer and almost every family had their own turf bank. Irish Turf was and still is, dug from the bogs then dried and used as a fuel for cooking food ...

AN TAOISEACH LEO Varadkar has said that Ireland will defend itself after the European Commission referred the State to the EU’s Court of Justice over a failure to protect peat bogs from turf ...

Mayo. (Although many Irish people still cut turf, it is not as prevalent as it once was.) It was while cutting turf that the local schoolmaster Patrick Caulfield first started coming across large ...

Gardaí have so far arrested six males — five adults and one juvenile — in relation to the attack and public disorder ...

Getty Images The environment minister says a solution that will respect the traditional reliance on turf in rural areas can be found The Republic of Ireland's environment minister and Green Party ...

Fourteen men have been ordered to stand trial accused of unlawful assembly in an incident police have said was a “concerted show of strength” during a “vicious” drug turf war in north Down.