Bad things come in threes. It certainly felt that way for those living in the surrounding townlands of the towering Mount Eagle on the tip of the Dingle peninsula on November 15, 2020. That morning, a peat slide began within a densely forested area of upland blanket bog on the protected mountainside. Within hours, hundreds of tonnes of peat had cascaded down the slope, eventually making its way into the badly damaged River Clydagh. It was the third major landslide in upland bogs in the space of five months, and the second that week. Just a few days earlier, a…

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