Renowned for bringing Christianity to Ireland, St Patrick also blazed a trail as one of our greatest hikers. Modern research ...

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 ...

Among a field of eight fillies and mares signed on for Saturday’s Grade 3 Santa Ana Stakes going 1 ¼ miles on turf is Starry ...

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 ...

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

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 ...