Consulting engineering and environmental scientists Fehily Timoney and Company (FT) has acquired Applied Ground Engineering Consultant’s (AGEC) services for an undisclosed sum.

Farm families are invited to attend a series of nine free forest walks in support of the Green Ribbon campaign to raise mental health awareness during May.

Coillte has estimated that recovery costs arising from this week’s destructive gorse fires in Co Galway will total at least €3m to €4m if not more.

Thousands of acres of forest, moorland and wildlife are now at major risk of destruction.