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Irish National Forestry Foundation

category cork | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Saturday November 08, 2008 10:46author by Michael Cronin

On the 15th November 2008, a conference was organised by the Irish National Forestry Foundation and held at the Silversprings Hotel, Cork. A protest by forestry contractors was present at the conference, claiming pollution of Irish rivers from harvesting of timber, also another peaceful protest was held at the National Ploughing Championships on the 23rd September 2008 (Photos of which are attached).
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Peaceful protest on pollution of Irish rivers.

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