Almost 20,000 Croke Park pitches worth of peatland 'rehabilitated'

The return of nesting cranes to a Bord na Móna peatland after 300 years 'show the enormous future potential for nature to renew and restore itself', the firm said.

More than 25,000 hectares of peatland, or the same as 19,600 Croke Park pitches, have been "rehabilitated", with more than 5,000 done in the last year alone, Bord na Móna has said.

To coincide with World Wetlands Day, the semi-state peatlands firm said that the restoration plan that began last year to revive carbon capture and storage has seen “upwards of 7.5m tonnes” secured over the past year.