Turning wetlands into fuel brings cheap energy to the countryside, but at a cost to ecosystems that trap carbon in the ground ...

By Clodagh Kilcoyne and Conor Humphries As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack ...

"The people that are coming up with plans to stop people from ... In drier, lowland parts of Ireland, dome-shaped raised bogs developed as peat accumulated in former glacial lakes. In upland and ...

"The people that are coming up with plans to ... In drier, lowland parts of Ireland, dome-shaped raised bogs developed as peat accumulated in former glacial lakes. In upland and coastal areas ...

The EU is putting pressure on Ireland to protect its bogs, but those who harvest peat say that rural realities are being ignored, and a way of life threatened.