Independent.ie

No need to allow turf cutting on protected bog to save rare butterfly

Sir, I write on behalf of Butterfly Conservation Ireland regarding an article that appeared in your paper last week, headed 'EU Turf-cutting ban will prove fatal for rare butterfly', in which reporter ...
Independent.ie

Ireland referred to court over failure to stop turf-cutting on protected bogs

Ireland is being taken to court by the European Commission for failing to stop turf-cutting on protected bogs. The decision to refer the issue to the EU Court of Justice comes after 13 years of ...
Courthouse News Service

Ireland’s turf-cutting tradition singled out as flouting nature law

Peat extraction machinery operates on a protected raised bog in Ireland in 2011. (Friends of the Irish Environment, 2011, via Courthouse News) (CN) — Ireland’s ancient bogs, prized for generations as ...
Irish Central

Ireland referred to European court for allegedly failing to protect sites from turf cutting

Ireland has been referred to the Court of Justice of the European Union by the European Commission “for failure to apply the Habitats Directive (Directive 92/43/EEC) to protect sites designated for ...
THE WEEK

An Irishman found a 2,000-year-old lump of butter in a bog. It's still edible.

A turf cutter in County Meath, Ireland, dug up a 22-pound lump of 2,000-year-old butter in early June, finding the ancient foodstuff 12 feet underground. Despite its advanced age, archeologists say ...