Organisation: Comhairle na Tuaithe

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Opening of 10 new walking trails a win-win situation for landowners and walkers

The Minister for Rural and Community Development has said the opening of 10 new walking trails as part of government plans to double the total number of trails around the country is a win-win situation for both landowners and walkers.

National Indemnity Scheme the solution

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Efforts to manage public use of Reeks

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Farming bodies welcome High Court judgment over ‘rights of way’ row

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Landowner indemnity by 2014 at the earliest

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Walks Scheme paid out almost €2m to participants last year

At the forefront of developing new tourism opportunities for farmers

ICMSA is at the forefront of developing new opportunities for farmers in the rural tourism sector.

Thu, 16 Dec, 2010

At the forefront of developing new tourism opportunities for farmers

ICMSA is at the forefront of developing new opportunities for farmers in the rural tourism sector.

Thu, 16 Dec, 2010

At the forefront of developing new tourism opportunities for farmers

ICMSA is at the forefront of developing new opportunities for farmers in the rural tourism sector.

Thu, 16 Dec, 2010

Farmers’ role in enhancing environment ignored

THE wild and factually incorrect assertions by Roderic O’Sullivan (Letters, May 31) show a complete failure to recognise the efforts by farmers to enhance the rural environment.

Tue, 08 Jun, 2010

Redeveloped forest park shows Coillte’s aim to grow public access

THE redeveloped Guagán Barra Forest Park in Co Cork was launched yesterday by Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív.

Sat, 11 Oct, 2008

Forest recreation generates €268m

FOREST-RELATED tour-ism and recreation activities in Coillte plantations generate an estimated €268 million of economic activity for the rural economy every year, it was disclosed yesterday.

Fri, 23 Nov, 2007

Farm group’s hard line on land access

YOU report ICMSA president Jackie Cahill as saying (September 26) they would not enter further discussions unless there was a change in the law to guarantee “no dilution” of land ownership.

Mon, 08 Oct, 2007

Labour plan the key to farmland access deal

THE report of the expert group to examine and make recommendations on the legal issues of land access for recreational use is an important contribution to the debate.

Fri, 20 Jul, 2007

Farmers willing to compromise on right to travel over land

THE right to roam at will through privately owned land has raised its head again.

Thu, 19 Jul, 2007

Walk proposals sent to Comhairle na Tuaithe

PROPOSALS for development and maintenance of waymarked ways and looped walks were recently circulated to members of Comhairle na Tuaithe, said Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív in Dail last week.

Thu, 03 May, 2007

The farmer and the hillwalker should be friends

THE Mountaineering Council of Ireland (MCI) is the national representative body for hillwalking and mountaineering with over 9,000 members living all over the country.

Wed, 02 May, 2007

Ó Cúiv promises great leap forward for walking routes

RURAL Affairs Minister Eamon Ó Cúiv will publish ambitious new plans to resolve the ongoing row over access to the Irish countryside within the next month.

Fri, 09 Mar, 2007

Minister confident of progress on walkways

MANY new countryside walkways will be in place next year, predicts Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Minister Éamon Ó Cuív.

Thu, 21 Dec, 2006

Farming groups in war of words over land-access deal

A war of words has broken out between two of Ireland's main farming organisations over a new deal that will see farmers getting paid for allowing walkers on their lands.

Tue, 05 Dec, 2006

Ó Cuív consults on countryside recreation

THE vexed issue of access to the countryside is to be the subject of a consultative process announced by Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Afairs Minister Éamon Ó Cuív.

Sat, 29 Oct, 2005

Why farmers should not be paid for letting walkers onto their lands

WE wish to respond to the comments by Cllr Michael Holmes (Irish Examiner Farming, September 7) where he accuses Keep Ireland Open of being “bully-boys” for daring to advocate reasonable access to the land.

Sat, 24 Sep, 2005

Minister urges unity in rural tourism

RURAL access disputes can cost millions of euro, Minister Eamon Ó Cuív warned yesterday at the presentation of rural tourism awards in Carrick-on-Shannon.

Tue, 30 Nov, 2004

Greens seek protection of rights of way

THE Green Party yesterday launched a campaign to have ‘rights of way’ enshrined in County Development Plans in order to reverse huge declines in the number of walking visitors coming to Ireland.

Tue, 23 Nov, 2004

Call to clarify land access rights

THE issue of access to land cannot be resolved without clarity of legal rights and obligations, ICMSA president Pat O’Rourke told his association’s annual general meeting in Limerick.

Sat, 20 Nov, 2004

Bill to safeguard walkers’ rights will defy Ó Cuiv

A PRIVATE Member’s Bill to legislatively enshrine hill walkers’ rights is to beintroduced in the Dáil, in defiance of Eamon Ó Cuiv, Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs.

Tue, 21 Sep, 2004

Council aims to keep it country

A COUNTRYSIDE council that will address contentious farm and tourism issues such as hill walking and recreational access to lands was launched yesterday by the Community Affairs Minister Eamon O’Cuiv.

Fri, 27 Feb, 2004