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Rural Life
Landowners urged to cut hedges ahead of deadline
The Road Safety Authority (RSA) and the County and City Management Association (CCMA) are calling on landowners to cut their...
Rural Life
The Road Safety Authority (RSA) and the County and City Management Association (CCMA) are calling on landowners to cut their...
Environment
Hedgerows Ireland has called on the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) to revisit its calculations for space...
Agri-Business
Tirlán and its family farm suppliers have set an ambitious new target to plant 450,000 native trees and hedgerow plants...
Environment
A number of events on responsible hedgerow management and cutting will take place over the coming days as part of...
biodiversity
Hedgerows, carbon, and biodiversity are up for discussion at today’s (Wednesday, February 9) meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on...
Agri-Business
Glanbia Ireland and its farm family suppliers have achieved their ‘Operation Biodiversity’ target of planting 100,000 native trees and hedgerow...
Environment
Understanding hedges better is the theme for Hedgerow Week 2021 which starts today (Friday, December 3) and will run until...
Beef
After much speculation among farmers, Teagasc has moved to outline the “inventory carbon values” for Irish hedgerows and grasslands. In...
Rural Life
A Co. Limerick farmer has stopped spilling his herd’s milk into a slurry tank in a dispute over a hedgerow...
Rural Life
Clonakilty District Court Judge James McNulty expressed surprise at what he termed the “lamentable ignorance” of a Clonakilty landowner in...
biodiversity
At a recent sitting of Macroom District Court, Judge James McNulty issued fines totalling €4,000 on two neighbouring landowners from...
Rural Life
The removal of 400m of mature hedgerow during bird nesting season has led to a conviction and fine for a...
Rural Life
A Co. Galway farmer has been convicted and fined €3,000 for destroying 755m of hedgerows and 0.7ac of scrub woodland...
Rural Life
A Co. Mayo farmer has been fined €4,000 and received a 20% penalty to his farm payments for the destruction...
Environment
A Laois man has been convicted and fined €6,000 for the destruction of hedgerow vegetation and trees containing birds’ nests,...
CAP / Schemes
As hedge-cutting starts up once more across the Irish countryside, farmers who avail of the Nitrates Derogation should take heed...
Rural Life
A farmer from Offaly was convicted and fined for destroying a hedgerow during the bird nesting season over the summer...
Environment
A new national organisation, Hedgerows Ireland, is calling for specific legislation to be introduced to protect ‘Ireland’s rainforests’ – native...