Sean Connick TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with responsibility for forestry, opened Coillte's 'Healthy People, Healthy Forests' exhibition at Bun Scoil MacAuley Rice, Callan, Co Kilkenny. 

IFA Farm Forestry Chairman, Pat Hennessy said that the Government’s plan to cut the afforestation capital budget by €20 million, as announced in the Capital Investment Priorities 2011–2016, would signal the end of a viable afforestation programme.

National Heritage Week, which is coordinated by the Heritage Council, runs from 21st - 29th August 2010 and the majority of events throughout the week are FREE.

The 'secrets and treasures' of the Hill of Tara are set to be revealed following the most extensive survey of the area in recent years.

There is no recession in the country’s forestry sector as wood prices soar, according to the Irish Timber Growers Association (ITGA).

Scientists have compiled the first map detailing the height of forests worldwide - an inventory they hope will provide new insights into global carbon storage.

A report from two Oireachtas committees has called on the EU Commission to set out the conditions for a national programme for forest carbon offsets in the Republic.

A Dublin authority has backed calls by RTE presenter, Joe Duffy, to spare the Poolbeg twin towers from demolition.

Northern Ireland Minister Michelle Gildernew MP, MLA recently visited a new native woodland in County Fermanagh.

The recent ‘National Forestry Demonstration of Small-Scale Harvesting and Extraction Options’ attracted an attendance of over 400 to the event.