Forestry
Over 1,000 felling applications for private forestry have been made to the Department of...
Rural Life
By Gordon Deegan A judge has said that “rooks can drive people mad” after being told that a...
"There must be no windblow in Kerry," was one of the remarks from an audience member who was...
N.Ireland
Large tonnages of windblown timber will be potentially available for sale across Northern Ireland...
The average waiting time for private felling licence decisions in 2022 was more twice the waiting...
89ha of forestry were planted in the first two months of 2023, according to the latest data from...
Many thousands of older trees are predicted to fall over the coming winter months, a direct...
The requirement to display the name of a licencee on a forestry site notice for tree felling is to...
A panel of forestry experts will speak at a webinar on the barriers to tree felling licences, run...
A senator has called for road surveys to be included in tree-felling licences so that local...
Agri-Business
“GP Wood has spent about €50 million in its facilities since 2017 and if I thought we were...
Forest Industries Ireland (FII), the Ibec representative body that supports over 12,000...
There is “no sign of the chaos and dysfunction within the forestry felling and licencing system...
Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae has said that the government “should get a handle on serial...
The government has been called on to “immediately address the crisis evolving within forestry as...
The backlog in the approval of forestry felling licences was raised as a key concern by Labour...
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed has been called on to step in and...
Licences for tree felling and forest roads issued in the month of March continue to show...
The Irish forest sector is facing a deepening crisis with at least 1,000 jobs immediately at risk...
A farmer died in a farm accident in Co. Down yesterday, the Health and Safety Executive...
