would you sell me a few bags? coal is far too expensive

Oh I think the ‘environ-mentalists’ have found us talking about cutting turf on raised bogs! Tut tut!

That made me laugh….:)

Free load of turf for you jimmy!

Can I have some, love the smell of burning turf, just before breakfast..

Course ya can! :)

Nothing beats a turf fire! Living in an apartment really makes you miss the open fire. Sure, there is always a mess left but it’s definitely worth it. The smell, the heat, and knowing you cut, dried, footed and collected the turf yourself… Oh how I miss my turf fires.

A sure we will keep the bog and flog the Forrest’s.

I think a nice long slow convoy to the courthouse with hoppers attached would be a lovely gesture!

yes but make sure the beasts aren’t burdened on the way, the ass is a lovely animal and I mean that

I totally agree Sean, the govt has bigger fish to fry than the turf cutting ‘issue’

Not sorting out the turf cutting issue will result in financial penalties imposed by the EU, and, as we all know at this stage, Ireland is not exactly flush with cash. So, yes, it is quite high in the list. Unless of course you want to pay the fines yourself?

The government has already been threatened with penalties over environmental issues

Bord na Mona are the largest raised bog owners in the State .
They value their bogs at 280,000 per hectare.
They supply something like 80 % of the moss peat market in Britain.
They harvest bog at a rate that would make an environmentalist weep.
Bog is a regenerating resource that does so regardless of small turf cutters harvesting.
Turf cutting is a generational thing that goes back to the time before Fianna Fail, Fine Gael , Labour, the greens or indeed the E.U. ever existed !
Turf cutting is as irish as the language !
When a bog is cut it regenerates and during this regeneration many different species of moss etc. grow other than Spagnum …to seal the bogs is to deny a whole culture of other flora and fauna that exist during this regeneration phase !
Environ-mentalists wouldn”t know a sod of turf if hit them in the face.
This bog issue that is going to court involved the Garda armed response unit going to Cloonmanny Bog while certain other criminals have access to what turfcutters see as a revolving door court system!
Some bogs are hundreds of years old and some are thousands and every age in between.
The department of the environment intend to allow fracing but think that turf cutting is a “baddy” .
People have not have their property rights so adversely affected or so poorly treated since the Lanndlords shoved Irish people on coffin ships so as to have large grazing farms for beef!
Michael d. didn’t go around the country telling the people that it was he who agreed this “concept” with the E.U. when he wanted to be elected president!
The turfcutters see this as European interference in the Independent State of Ireland !
Now tell me that this is a “good idea”
the solution is to grow bogs in the bord na mona cutaways and leave the Indigenous Irish to cut their turf for their families…… in my opinion!
Finally; men who cut turf are real men i.e.they are prepared to “graft” for the benefit of their families and not go around the country talking crap in a suit thinking they are smarter than everyone else ….in my opinion !
Many of our bogs are the remnants of ancient mines (my theory) and many bogs are therefore rich in minerals!
All of the above is my opinion!

Funny you should say that ,raised peat bog is only found in 2 country’s in the world ,Scotland and Ireland ,so this is alot more important than you think

Dermot Ryan ,your in the wrong job ,well stated .

Love to copy and paste that on Enda the traitors forehead!!