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 ...

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 ...

Achill is Ireland’s largest island ... is an evening of music and storytelling around a turf fire in an Irish cottage on Monday evenings in Cloghane Brandon. The Dingle music scene offers ...

Heading into their match against France, Ireland are within touching distance of claiming a historic Six Nations Championship ...

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 ...

The William Hill Lincoln could be an early season turf target for Apiarist after the progressive four-year-old downed Royal Zabeel in the valuable 7f handicap. All the top handicaps over seven ...

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 ...