Coillte has rejected suggestions that it has agreed to provide sites for a controversial gas exploration project, which has provoked public concern in the northwest.

Headland Archaeology (Ireland) Ltd in Cork is rebranding as Rubicon Heritage Services and opening new offices in England and Scotland as part of ambitious growth plans, following a management buyout.

A Scottish university is to undertake a state-ordered report into a controversial gas extraction method known as 'fracking' to determine potential environmental impacts and will be completed early next year.

Traditionally Leitrim has been one of the poorest counties in Ireland. A recent Famine map by NUI Maynooth indicated the population is just 17 per cent of what it was at the time of the famine, the lowest in Ireland.

Northern Ireland's Assembly has voted for a moratorium on 'fracking' - a method of extracting natural gas from shale, pending an environmental assessment.

Northern Ireland Environment Minister, Alex Attwood has launched the Department of Environment’s new guidance on Tree Preservation Orders.

Irish Forestry and Forest Products Association (IFFPA), an IBEC sector that represents members from the entire forest industry chain, has launched the sector’s review of performance, which highlights the progress made by the industry in gaining new export markets.

Shane McEntee TD, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with responsibility for Forestry, launched the 'Forestry & Timber Yearbook 2012', published by the Irish Timber Growers Association (ITGA).

An outbreak of the disease caused by Phytophthora ramorum has been confirmed in larch trees at Moneyscalp Wood in Northern Ireland, which is part of the Tollymore Forest Park.

Campaigners have welcomed the unanimous decision of Roscommon County Council calling for a ban on the method of shale gas extraction known as 'fracking' in the county.