Brendan Smith TD, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, marked National Tree Week with tree planting ceremonies at St. Tiarnach's National School, St. Michael's National School, Cootehill and Aughadreena National School.

The European Commission has adopted a Green Paper which sets out options for a European Union approach to the protection of forests and to information about forest resources and their condition.

Traditional farm buildings are to be rescued from demolition by a new EU-funded grant scheme.

National Tree Week will take place this year from 7-13 March - the theme is ‘Twenty Ten - Plant Again’.

Work on the £18.5m Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre is on course to start this May.

A property owner and a company have been fined a total of £21,000 at Dungannon Magistrates’ Court for demolishing a number of buildings after a Building Preservation Notice had been served.

Perhaps the best way to convince people of the benefits that forestry can bestow on their properties is to show examples of how farmers have already established woods on their land and profited from them.

Competing campaign groups have clashed over the building of a bypass around Slane, Co Meath.

IKEA has teamed up with the Tree Council of Ireland and Fingal County Council to help create two woodlands located at Santry Demesne and Turvey Park, Donabate.

A campaign to Save Bremore claims that the coastal strip on the Meath/Dublin border may be one of the richest archaeological areas in Ireland, with aspects comparable to the Hill of Tara.