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 ...

But before double-glazing, electric blankets and well-insulated homes, folk, in rural areas especially, would huddle round an open turf fire for warmth, In recent times, turf (or peat) may have ...

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 ...