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The touring exhibition Folk Fiction - Translations in Material Cultures, by Galway visual artist Gareth Kennedy has come to Galway City Museum after previously being exhibited at the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Kerry County Museum and the National Craft Gallery.

Two men were last evening (Wednesday) found guilty of the murder of a Brazilian man whose body was found in a north Kerry bog.

In all some 589 applications for compensation were received in relation to bogs located wholey or in part in County Westmeath, according to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

The Galway branch of the Irish WIldlife Trust will host a wildlife walk at Roundstone Bog in Connemara this Saturday, June 9.

Bog owners along the River Moy who were advised in Government notices published last week that they can no longer cut turf if their bog is located among the hundreds of townlands listed in the notice, may not all be subject to turf-cutting restrictions.

Briarhill Pharmacy and Beauty Emporium is introducing Galway to Ógra, Ireland’s first and original organic peat skincare range.

A lot of public and private land was destroyed in Mayo last March and April due to bog and forest fires.

The re-design and construction of Keelderry Wind Farm comprising 16 wind turbines, meteorological mast, and substation, has been refused permission by An Bord Pleanala on the grounds that it could endanger bird species such as the hen harrier and merlin, that it would adversely affect the stability of nearby peatland, and would seriously injure the visual amenities of the area.

A survey of the Annaghgorta bog area is to be carried out by Westmeath County Council in the coming weeks, in the hope of addressing the ongoing problem of illegal dumping in the area.

Despite widespread concerns from local people the new water eco-park mooted for the Midlands will not affect water levels of the Shannon. Speaking to the Advertiser Gerry Geoghan of RPS, a consultant firm to Dublin City Council, said that the water supply is not only for the people of Dublin, but also for those in the Shannon area.