On Thursday, April 5, 2012, the then Minister for Heritage Jimmy Deenihan appeared on RTÉ’s Morning Ireland to warn that there would be repercussions for anyone with notions of going out to cut turf across Ireland’s protected raised bogs network that weekend. He was responding to a call by the Turf Cutters and Contractors Association to start cutting again after the State enforced an effective ban on peat harvesting across the internationally renowned sites in response to the EU’s displeasure with the lack of action up to this point.  The previous June, the European Commission had issued a reasoned opinion…

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