How dare they defy the European Commission!
There are rules about cutting up Peat Moss?
Maybe it’s an export for farming.
A product that helps to distribute water through the soil, I believe.
Get involved with the EU and become their slave.
For Pete’s sake!
The EU is roughly analogous the United States in the 1830s.
It’s trying to form a centralized government and create institutions of central power, over a group of formerly independent and disparate states.
Of course, one big difference is they are coming at this from the opposite direction - using top-down mandates, neo-marxism, social-engineering and controlled-media centralized propaganda to force this union.
Oh, noes! No one who owns less than 50 hectares of land in Ireland cutting peat for heat expects the European Court of Justice!
Love seeing those chickens come home to roost - the Irish are about as left wing and pro-EI as it gets.
“EU taking Ireland to court over alleged lack of peat-cutting enforcement”. What about Irish whiskey? Drumshanbo Single Pot Still Whiskey Pinot Noir, will I be able to find that?
You vill not cut zee peet and you vill like it!
not only should there not be a separate EU entity at all, but it should not be allowed to file suits against sovereign nations in any court or artificial courts whatsoever
the 4th Reich EU etcetera needs to be disbanded ASAP!
Sounds like some goofy “Wetlands” control similar to the mess the EPA mandated.
30 hectares = 74 acres
50 hectares = 123 acres
Remember...the EU was created to establish a common European market. It has morphed into a centralized dictatorial oligarchy that seeks to control every aspect of citizens’ lives and destroy the sovereignty of member states.
Sound familiar?
Fellow Irishmen go freeze, I thought you fought for your freedom now you’ve surrender it to be slaves of the EU.
Recently returned from a cruise that included a stop at the Scottish Isle of Lewis. There, too, they harvest peat for cooking and home heating, and though it is frowned upon by the British government, fuel prices have been so high, and that area is so darn cold, that locals do it anyway. Cool to see homes with their “peat stacks” in the yard. In this area, the peat covers the “moors” and is literally hundreds of years old and 3 miters deep, made up mostly of sphagnum moss that grows and decomposes, grows and decomposes, and on and on. Very cool to see.