Minister launches new Teagasc “marteloscope” training programme
Senator Pippa Hackett, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, launched Teagasc’s new marteloscope training programme, on her recent...
Coillte: Dublin Mountains Makeover update
The Dublin Mountains Makeover is continuing with new native woodland areas being planted in several areas this winter. To make way for more native...
Minister announces commencement of 2022 Forestry Premiums Payments totaling €28.7 million
Senator Pippa Hackett, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with responsibility for forestry, has announced the commencement of...
Minister Hackett publishes large-scale public survey results on forestry in Ireland
Senator Pippa Hackett, today announced the results of the “Attitudes to Afforestation in Ireland” survey.
This survey was commissioned by the Minister’s Department as...
Trinity, UCD and Coillte team up to examine multiple benefits of forests
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue, has launched the FOR-ES research project, which will look to co-develop tools for sustainable forestry...
Tender: Services for transformation to continuous cover forestry
Horticulture Connected feature tenders for jobs in Ireland’s public sector suitable for candidates from the horticulture industry.
This tender comes from the University College Dublin...
Minister commences series of visits to agri-food, forestry and marine research facilities
Martin Heydon, T.D Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, with special responsibility for research and innovation, has commenced...
Woodland Trust announce UK’s Tree of the Year 2021
A defiant lone hawthorn guarding the Scottish coastline is the winner of the Woodland Trust’s Tree of The Year for 2021.
The tree at Kippford,...
UK News: Forestry Commission takes further action on new tree disease
New Plant Health requirements introduced to prevent the spread of the tree pathogen Phytophthora pluvialis in Cumbria and south-west England.
Woodland managers, landowners, tree nurseries...
The Tree Council of Ireland and Coillte officially launch Ireland’s National Tree Week 2022
National Tree Week 2022 was officially launched today in Sacred Heart Senior National School, Tallaght by the president of the Tree Council of Ireland...