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 ...

You meet in the hotel lobby and go up the elevator in two groups of 10 to the fourth floor. Once assembled there, you’re led to a community room where you take your seat around a table covered in ...

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 ...

THERE are about 6,000,000 tons of turf used every year in Ireland, but this quantity is almost in significant in comparison with the total amount, about 4,000,000,000 tons, which can be won from the ...