'Serious amount of harm done' by gorse fires

Smoke continues to billow from smouldering bogs and forests across the midlands this afternoon.

'Serious amount of harm done' by gorse fires

Smoke continues to billow from smouldering bogs and forests across the midlands this afternoon.

Firefighters are battling fires at acres of forestry land in Milltownpass, at Clonsockey between Portlaoise and Mountmellick and at Ballinagar and Leamonaghan in Offaly.

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