A new machine for cutting turf bricks is introduced to the Irish market. Ballintuber Enterprises who are selling the machine claim it can save time and money by providing enough fuel for a couple of ...

Up to 90 people have been cutting turf throughout the night on Clonmoylan Bog in Co Galway in defiance of an EU directive and Irish law. They brought turf-cutting machinery onto the bog yesterday ...

About 70 turf-cutters held a protest near a courthouse yesterday where two men were charged with illegally cutting turf in a preserved bog. John O'Connor (50) and Christopher McCarthy (26), both ...

The 'turf war' reignited yesterday as turf cutters moved in on three protected bogs in the West and there was a tense stand-off involving gardai, parks and wildlife rangers, turf cutters and ...

FOUR turf cutters are to be prosecuted for unlawfully cutting turf on protected bogs. The cases are the first of their kind. The Co Galway men were issued with court summonses this week and face ...

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 ...

Lee Woodhouse was run over by a turf-cutting machine he had been driving A turf company has been made to pay £100,000 after a man was run over by a 27-tonne turf harvesting machine he had been driving ...