More than €1.5 million has been paid to some 1,000 turf-cutters in the controversial compensation scheme for the protection of 53 raised bogs. Those whose turbary rights are on the affected bogs ...
The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has been meeting with turf-cutters to compensate them for having to cease cutting turf on protected bogs. However it has come to light that turf-cutters ...