A driver is driving a robot. Make that 30 robots. A turf harvester is running, cutting and stacking with unprecedented efficiency as 30 separate control loops run simultaneously. It’s not quite a sans ...

A new machine for cutting turf bricks is introduced to the Irish market. Ballintuber Enterprises who are selling the machine claim it can save time and money by providing enough fuel for a couple of ...

Up to 90 people have been cutting turf throughout the night on Clonmoylan Bog in Co Galway in defiance of an EU directive and Irish law. They brought turf-cutting machinery onto the bog yesterday ...

A TURF cutter who collapsed during a stand-off with gardai has told how his livelihood is in tatters following the destruction of his digger. Michael Darcy (42) was at the heart of the 24-hour ...

About 70 turf-cutters held a protest near a courthouse yesterday where two men were charged with illegally cutting turf in a preserved bog. John O'Connor (50) and Christopher McCarthy (26), both ...

A teenager has died in an industrial accident at a turf making company on the New South Wales south coast. Blaine Rozs, 19, became trapped under a cutting machine at Jasper's Brush on the Princes ...

TURF CUTTERS in Co Galway have vowed to continue to cut turf until everyone in their area without fuel is supplied, after they returned to Clonmoylan bog yesterday and defied an EU directive not to ...

THESE turf wars are quite nasty all the same. Machinery going on fire, tussles, scuffles, hospitalisations, Ming's beard... does anyone else think, however, that even if they could get the turf cut in ...

Ireland's remote boglands have become the unlikely battleground for a campaign of open defiance against Irish and European law. The wild landscape of Monivea in Co Galway is a long way from the ...

Lee Woodhouse was run over by a turf-cutting machine he had been driving A turf company has been made to pay £100,000 after a man was run over by a 27-tonne turf harvesting machine he had been driving ...

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Lee Woodhouse was run over by a turf-cutting machine he had been driving A turf company has been made to pay £100,000 after a man was run over by a 27-tonne turf harvesting machine he had been driving ...