Illegal burning 'must stop' as wildfires scorch Wicklow 10 March 2021 Free
SHARING OPTIONS: The blaze was close to a Coillte forest, as well as a number of private dwellings. \ Ellen Devitt Durkin Farmers have been called on to cease setting illegal fires as the open period for burning gorse has now ended. Approximately 50ha of uplands were destroyed in a blaze that spread rapidly across Scarr Mountain in Co Wicklow, overlooking Lough Dan on Sunday, 7 March. Areas of the Slieve Bloom Mountains in Co Laois were also damaged on the same day by a wildfire. Speaking at the site of the blaze in Wicklow, Minister of the State for H...
Source: farmersjournal.ie