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 ...

As wind turbines on the horizon churn out clean energy, John Smyth bends to stack damp peat - the cheap, smokey fuel he has harvested for half a century. The painstaking work of "footing turf," as the ...

For many in rural Ireland, going to the bog is an almost religious ritual of devotion, passed down from generation to generation. For many others, some whose Land Rovers only get dirty heading to ...