# coillte - Tuesday 16 February, 2021
# Wood You Believe It
# Wood You Believe It
2.2 million people visited the country’s most popular forests from March onwards.
# coillte - Wednesday 30 December, 2020
# Timber Trouble
# Timber Trouble
Noteworthy analysis reveals serious concerns remain over environmental assessments undertaken by the State prior to granting plantation forestry licences.
# coillte - Thursday 5 November, 2020
# Coillte
# Coillte
Sweetman is challenging a decision made to issue Coillte a ‘felling licence’ in respect of coniferous Sitka Spruce trees on 2.7 hectares of land.
# coillte - Monday 25 May, 2020
# Coillte
# Coillte
The forests have been managed by Coillte primarily for commercial purposes to date
# coillte - Tuesday 12 May, 2020
# Eye In The Sky
# Eye In The Sky
It’s the second year drones will be used to monitor designated ‘hot spots’ across regions of Dublin, Wicklow and the Midlands.
# coillte - Thursday 9 April, 2020
# Easter Weekend
# Easter Weekend
Amenities could be closed to locals if guidelines breached.
# coillte - Tuesday 3 March, 2020
# Earth Protector
# Earth Protector
Last week, Sioned Jones was found not guilty of criminal damage of a Coillte Forest but guilty of a second charge of stealing firewood.
# coillte - Friday 28 February, 2020
# Cork Circuit Criminal Court
# Cork Circuit Criminal Court
The jury found the 61-year-old guilty of a second charge of dishonestly appropriating felled spruce wood.
# coillte - Wednesday 2 October, 2019
# Treemendous
# Treemendous
The trees will be planted on Bord na Móna land.
# coillte - Friday 6 July, 2018
# Danger Danger
# Danger Danger
Yesterday marked the sixth consecutive day that the Defence Forces deployed the Air Corps to assist firefighting operations.
# coillte - Thursday 5 April, 2018
# Wind Farms
# Wind Farms
The semi-state previously announced plans to boost its renewable energy projects.
# coillte - Thursday 1 February, 2018
# Wood For The Trees
# Wood For The Trees
Some farmers told RTÉ that they had been left without payments from the farm-forest partnership scheme
# coillte - Wednesday 5 July, 2017
# The Longest Days
# The Longest Days
From green fingers to the Lazy Day Rule.
# coillte - Thursday 18 May, 2017
# Damage
# Damage
Dublin Fire Brigade received over 20 calls reporting the incident.
# coillte - Thursday 11 May, 2017
# Up In Flames
# Up In Flames
There have been more than 100 serious gorse and forest fires in recent weeks.
# coillte - Wednesday 10 May, 2017
# Galway
# Galway
Gardaí have asked people to avoid the Cloosh Valley area.
# coillte - Sunday 7 May, 2017
# Dublin Mountains
# Dublin Mountains
Coillte said the development will bring the Dublin mountains to life for many of the city’s residents
# coillte - Saturday 4 February, 2017
# Bank Branch
# Bank Branch
Under the investment, more than 35,000 hectares will be replanted.
# coillte - Friday 9 December, 2016
# Rubbish Of The Republic
# Rubbish Of The Republic
Sinn Féin said it wasn’t a member of the party who dumped the rubbish.
# coillte - Friday 2 December, 2016
# No Kidding
# No Kidding
The proposed cull has now been deferred as Coillte work with locals to resolve their dispute
# coillte - Thursday 24 September, 2015
# Co Laois
# Co Laois
It is unclear what exactly cause the collapse.
# coillte - Thursday 21 May, 2015
# Not Happening
# Not Happening
An Bord Pleanála said it wasn’t satisfied that the area was suitable for the development.
# coillte - Saturday 4 April, 2015
# coillte - Wednesday 1 April, 2015
# Parks And Recreation
# Parks And Recreation
A UK resort operator is reportedly planning a major development near Ballymahon.
# coillte - Monday 26 January, 2015
# Happy Trails
From The Daily Edge
# Happy Trails
“They say it’s very hard to find.”
# coillte - Tuesday 30 December, 2014
# Curraghchase House
# Curraghchase House
The architect laid out a plan whereby the whole community could play a part in rescuing the building and making it into a major tourist attraction.
# coillte - Wednesday 26 November, 2014
# Appointments
# Appointments
The Department of Public Expenditure denied there was a loophole in the new guidelines.
# coillte - Friday 27 June, 2014
# Inbox Me
# Inbox Me
This was the week in business…
# coillte - Thursday 26 June, 2014
# Grows On Trees
# Grows On Trees
David Gunning received a total package of €195,000 for 2013 when all payments are taken into account.
# coillte - Wednesday 25 June, 2014
# All Together Now
# All Together Now
They will develop tourist trails, build wind farms and explore using green energy to power electricity stations.
# coillte - Tuesday 19 November, 2013
# Merger
# Merger
The agency is set to merge with Bord na Mona instead of its harvesting rights being sold off.
# coillte - Sunday 11 August, 2013
# Sustainbility
# Sustainbility
The Leaf project has been working for the last three years to get communities in the county working together on all aspects of sustainable development.
# coillte - Monday 29 July, 2013
# State Assets
# State Assets
It’s expected around a billion euro will be raised by the sale, with around half of the funds raised going to pay down bailout debt.
# coillte - Wednesday 19 June, 2013
# Coillte
# Coillte
The planned sale of Coillte harvesting rights has been called off, with the agency now set to merge with Bord na Mona.
# coillte - Tuesday 14 May, 2013
# Leinster House
# Leinster House
A Sinn Féin motion debated tonight will call for the ‘re-energisation’ of the Northern Ireland peace process.
# coillte - Friday 3 May, 2013
# State Assets
# State Assets
The energy arm of Bord Gáis Éireann is one of a number of State-run companies the government intends to sell-off in the coming year.
# coillte - Thursday 2 May, 2013
# Leinster House
# Leinster House
Laws to merge and rationalise Ireland’s VEC sector will be among those polished off in Leinster House today.
# coillte - Friday 1 March, 2013
# Read Me
# Read Me
The chopping, fudging and importing of illegally harvested timber is likely to continue; and a holistic solution to sustainable forestry management is still a long way off, writes Dermot McNally.
# coillte - Tuesday 26 February, 2013
Rain; breezy this morning
Max: 18 °C
Min: 13 °C
Cloudy and breezy with a shower
Max: 18 °C
Min: 13 °C
