Join our hedgerow expert for a lovely evening walk along the late-summer hedgerows of the grand Emo House and Parklands for Hedgerow Week 2025. Immerse yourself in the history and natural beauty of Ireland’s hedgerows, discover the vital roles they play in our biodiversity, and learn how they’ve shaped our landscape for centuries When? Thursday […]
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Every year, National Heritage Week offers us a chance to revisit and renew our connection to Ireland’s natural and cultural heritage. This is a particularly special opportunity for us at Hedgerows Ireland, as it helps us highlight an often-overlooked aspect of hedgerow conservation. Our focus is most often on the environmental and biodiversity benefits of
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Hedgerows are an irreplaceable part of our rural landscape, but their ecosystems don’t end where the city limits begin. The urban hedgerow has a lot to contribute to our shared spaces, as journalist Sunni Bean discovered. Recently, we had the opportunity to contribute to her excellent article from The Dublin Enquirer, which looks current efforts
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Course: Introduction to Hedge LayingTrainer: Eamonn McLoughlinLocation: Tinamuck, Co. OffalyDates: 29th November 2025Time: 9.30-3.30 pm Hedge laying is an ancient skill, involving a rejuvenative process that keeps the hedgerow young and vigorous indefinitely. It is considered the optimum form of management for our native hedgerows and it is hard to overstate its value in preserving habitats for our threatened
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Hedgerows Ireland, An Taisce, and the Environmental Pillar appeal for signatures on their open letter to Minister McConalogue, asking him to take decisive action on the risk of Fireblight in Ireland. Fireblight is a bacterial disease that may result in the removal of Ireland’s emblematic Hawthorn hedgerows if allowed to spread. Its other common host
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View the Ear to the Ground piece on the risk of Fireblight to Ireland’s hedgerows here: RTÉ Player Season 31, Episode 11 You can also learn more with our webinar on the Diseases & Pests of Irish Hedgerows: View the recording here. Report details and send photographs of suspected disease or insect damage through TreeCheck
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On Saturday 16th December 2023, we visited Cooltrim Organic Farm for a walk with Trevor Harris. We learned about his farming practices and discussed them in the context of the European Union and the Nature Restoration Law. With final negotiations of the Nature Restoration Law around the corner, now is a vital time to learn
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Written by Sonja Moore, a Director of Hedgerows Ireland. The possibility of attending a hedge laying championship in Stanford Hall to watch, learn and understand different kinds of hedge laying proved to be a very rewarding experience. Especially for one who had never laid a hedge, only tried her hand on the few unfortunate young
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Dáil Eireann, 23rd May 2023: Charlie McConalogue, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, announced a review of Ireland’s Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) Regulations. These Regulations are designed to protect nature and our environment by requiring landowners to go through screening and an Environmental Impact Assessment for particular projects. Projects may include restructuring rural land (e.g. removing hedgerows or stone walls),
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Written by Mark McDowell The planting of a new hedge in an urban environment is an event, it gets witnessed by thousands of people, many of them young children, and the progress and development of the children is mirrored in the growth and development of the hedge, they will always remember that hedge, their hedge,
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