Matt Corbett reckons the best thing about cutting turf is that you get to disappear into silence for the day. From early April to June, locals driving the narrow Connemara road past Carna towards ...

A new turf-stacking tractor is the benefactor of a sophisticated control system that manages multiple motion profiles with an integrated processor and field-programmable gate array. The grass slabs ...

Sir, – In “A rural scene that’s dead and gone” accompanying a 1983 photograph of a manual turf-cutter, Arminta Wallace summarises the current impasse on boglands as: “The thing is, it’s not wrong to ...