Amid widespread calls for extensive peatland restoration, that horticultural peat mining is continuing unabated in Ireland is a baffling scenario and one which cannot be allowed continue, writes Anja ...

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 ...

Irish peat bogs could play a big part in the fight against climate change, according to a university professor in Maynooth. Dr Lisa Orme, who works in the Irish Climate Research and Analysis Unit ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old man preserved in an Irish peat bog, marking the oldest European bog body ever found with skin still intact. The cool, waterlogged ...

Researchers excavated Bellaghy Bog after a civilian reported seeing bones sticking out of the peat in October. Police Service of Northern Ireland When law enforcement officials investigated the body ...