And so the garden dunnocks – donnóg in Irish – look set to bring up a second family in the garden. And although they are shy ...

Lusty’s Centra in Larne is helping to enhance biodiversity and create a foraging area for bees, by sponsoring the planting of ...

Author Naoise Dolan spoke to Brendan O'Connor on RTÉ Radio One about her favourite books in English and in Irish and more recently, her foray into writing in Irish.

With the co-operation of Kerry County Council’s Tralee MD, who are managing an area on the Bracker O’Regan Road for biodiversity, Tralee Tidy Towns added to the existing Hawthorn hedge with ...

The power and incredible tales behind Ireland's legendary fairy trees. Myth and lore have surrounded the sacred hawthorn tree since ancient times, and respect for its supernatural associations is ...

Ireland is now the least wooded country in Europe with an estimated 11 percent of forest cover with just two percent being native woodland including; alder, ash, birch, elm, hawthorn, hazel, holly ...

Q: We were planning on using a native hawthorn as a boundary hedge around our country garden. But a friend has warned us off it, saying that there’s a disease spreading throughout Europe that ...

Even the poultry matches. Scott has restored kilometres of important hawthorn hedges that were laid in the traditional way in the 1840s by Irish and Scottish settlers but had become overgrown.

National Hedgerow Week, which commences on Monday, May 6, is a week to “celebrate all the benefits” a hedgerow can provide for you and your farm. Senior biodiversity technologist at College of ...

Imports of hawthorn are putting native hawthorn trees and hedges — as well as cotoneaster, apple, pear, and rowan — at risk and must be halted immediately say environmental groups.

Minister for Agriculture Charlie McConalogue has been urged to ban the import of hawthorn plants to prevent the bacterial disease fireblight from destroying the country’s hedgerow network. The call ...