Irish Climate and Environment Minister Eamon Ryan has announced a ban on the commercial sale and advertisement of turf, which comes into effect today, October 31. Ryan signed the new Solid Fuel ...
Get ready to accept the traditional image of a burning fire in Irish homes with turf produced from local bogs could vanish forever. Instead, peat from places like Eastern Europe could be used where ...
In April, Russia closed the spigot on natural gas pipelines to Poland and Bulgaria after both nations refused to pay for the gas in rubles, accelerating an energy crisis that is reaching across Europe ...
On Ireland’s wet and windy Achill Island, local sheep farmer Stephen Gavin, 64, has been harvesting peat from the wetlands near his home since April. The unmistakable smell of the bog’s sweet ...