Rural Life
A Co. Offaly landowner has been fined €10,500 at a district court for the "destruction of vegetation" which included a 283-year-old oak tree.
N.Ireland
A 70-year-old man has been convicted in court in Northern Ireland over an incident involving the pollution of a river with effluent.
A 34-year-old farmer has been convicted and fined by a court in Northern Ireland for water pollution offences.
A Clare woman has told a court of her devastation at losing her husband in a farmyard accident more than two and a half years ago.
Serious damage was caused to a wet heath habitat in Kerry after a sheep farmer used a heavy machine to construct a track, a court was told.
A turf cutting contractor has been fined €1,000 for extracting turf in a protected Natural Heritage Area (NHA) raised bog.
Environment
Two landowners in Co. Wicklow have been fined under the Wildlife Act for burning vegetation out of season, the department has said.
A Co. Kilkenny man has been convicted and fined €2,000 for the removal of 112m of hedgerow and the grubbing out of a further 180m
A farmer has been fined in Carlow District Court today, Thursday, July 2, after pleading guilty to breaching health and safety regulations.
A chemist in Co. Mayo was recently convicted on one charge in relation to the oversupply of animal medication to a farm in Connacht.
A French farmer received a speeding fine for clocking 150kph on a speed camera in Namur, Belgium - on his 30-year-old tractor.
A farmer and haulier in Northern Ireland has been fined for transporting an animal that was not fit for the journey.
