For many in rural Ireland, going to the bog is an almost religious ritual of devotion, passed down from generation to generation. For many others, some whose Land Rovers only get dirty heading to ...
Bord na Móna, which was once a peat extraction company, has now committed to one of the largest peatland restoration projects ever undertaken, targeting 33,000 hectares in over 80 bogs with the hope ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I recently revisited one of my favourite places in Ireland — an Iron Age timber road dating from 148BC, ...
Recently, Jack Conway was “cutting turf," the term for digging up blocks of moss in Emlagh peat bog in County Meath, Ireland, when he discovered a 22-pound lump of butter. The find, believed to be ...
As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat – the cheap, smoky fuel he has harvested for half a century. The painstaking work of “footing turf,” as the ...
The peat bogs of Ireland are an iconic part of its rural landscape. But a fierce donnybrook has erupted over the harvesting of peat, known locally as turf cutting. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...
As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat - the cheap, smoky fuel he has harvested for half a century. The painstaking work of “footing turf,” as the ...
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