Forestry campaigner welcomes signs of  change at Coillte

Environmentalist Sioned Jones. Picture: Andy Gibson

The chainsaw-wielding grandmother who was in court over cutting Coillte trees near her home in west Cork has now entered negotiations with the State commercial forestry agency about how best to manage that same woodland.

Sioned Jones, 61, who studied biochemistry before moving to Ireland in 1987, has made it her life mission to plant broadleaf trees to promote biodiversity and tackle climate change.