For countless centuries Irish peat land (bog land) 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 ...

Fabien Galthié threw down the gauntlet to Ireland on Thursday, with the France head coach selecting a seven-strong bench of ...

IRELAND IS FACING legal action after the European Commission referred the State to the EU’s Court of Justice over a failure to protect peat bogs from turf cutting. It called on Ireland to ...

We are a rural county and we depend on turf and timber, and there would be many of us cold if we had to depend on anything else’ – Cllr Patsy O’Brien ...

The Government should provide more funding for retrofitting houses instead of threatening to ban the sale of turf, say councillors ...

There was not a dry eye in the house as Sir Chris Hoy delivered the match ball onto the the hallowed turf at Murrayfield. Hoy, a six-time Olympic cycling champion, was given the honour prior to ...