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Offaly TD calls on Government to consider turf cutting as protected cultural practice offalyexpress.ie - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from offalyexpress.ie Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Campaign starts to declare a day on the bog a cultural human right
TD references the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in calling for turf cutting to be declared “protected cultural practice”
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12 Apr 2021
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A campaign has started to persuade the Green Party s Minister for Culture to have turf cutting protected under EU or international conventions as a cultural human right.
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said she has written to the Minister for Culture Catherine Martin in an effort to investigate if traditional turf cutting practices can be protected under EU or international conventions.
Deputy Nolan said that she would be making the move following increasing concerns that those who had engaged in turf cutting for home heat and cultural reasons were effectively being subjected to a process amounting to creeping criminalisation .