TURF cutters from all over the country will come to the aid of their North Kerry colleagues if a ban on cutting turf on Moanveanlagh bog outside Listowel is enforced next year. This was decided at a ...

Defiant turf cutters have claimed they won a battle against officials, but not the war. One man was arrested and another taken to hospital when his machinery was destroyed by fire as a stand-off ...

MINISTER FOR Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan has revealed that his family bog in Kerry, where generations of his relatives have cut turf, is one of those where the traditional practice ...

Heritage minister Jimmy Deenihan confirmed the lifting of the ban would ensure around 2,500 active turf-cutters were allowed to cut in the affected areas. "Most of our peatlands have been altered by ...