Ireland is near the bottom of the league of EU countries when it comes to forestry, but could we be on the brink of an all-out, tree-planting blitz? If so, we’ll go for native species, hopefully. Given the effects of global warming and how useful trees are for storing carbon, there’s every reason to get more saplings into the earth.

Sinn Féin is calling on the Government to stop providing grants and financial incentives to plant the coniferous trees which are the predominant species used in Irish forestry.

Farmers and their co-ops have called on the next leaders of the EU to keep agriculture and forestry at the top of all agendas.

A West Cork woodland should remain in forestry, following its sale to a private buyer, Coillte has said.

A new trade association for the forestry and timber industries forecasts major growth, as the supply of raw material from Irish forests doubles in the period to 2035.

€12.5 million has become available to support continuous cover forestry in Ireland, through an EU guaranteed loans and investments package.

For a country that is the least wooded in the EU, it is hard to believe that Ireland was once cloaked in woodland.

Improved forestry grant establishment and support schemes are being introduced at nationwide information meetings.

The world cannot respond adequately to rising temperatures if governments continue ignoring how forests, farms, and coasts are managed, writes Justin Adams.

A farming organisation wants forestry payments curtailed amid claims they are a threat to the fabric of rural life.

Forestry company Coillte has announced record earnings of €98.3m for 2016.

Dozens of firemen battled to fight illegal wildfires across the south west this weekend, from north Kerry to west Cork, where forestry as well as upland nesting areas were destroyed.

When Food Harvest 2020 (FH2020) “a strategy to chart the direction of agri-food, forestry and fisheries for the next decade” was published in July 2010, it was an ambitious declaration.