Therese Kelly is conservation officer of NPWS and is working with Tóchar to support public and community engagement. On August 16th 2025 for our Heritage Week event in Kilteevan Co Roscommon Therese Kelly gave a presentation on why we work to conserve bogs and how it happens. The bogs close to Kilteevan on Lough Ree SAC will begin rehabilitation work soon and this event was designed to provided community engagement and information.

Therese Kelly - NPWS - on why and how we conserve bogs

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Eileen Fahey is Chair of Kilteevan Tidy Town, Roscommon and in this Heritage week presentation shares why she became an advocate for bog conservation and made protecting the local bog, Cloonlarge Bog, a mission of the Tidy Towns group.  Photo credit Shane Hynan
Find out more of tochar wetlands restoration on https://www.tocharwetlands.ie
Tóchar Wetlands Restoration is a 3 year wetlands restoration in the Midlands co funded by Irish Government and EU under Just Transition Programme in Ireland. It is managed by NPWS through Dept of Housing Local Government and Heritage.

Eileen Fahey - Kilteevan  Tidy Town on  protecting the local  bog

Oliver Callan did a very powerful interview with Fianna Fáil TD, Catherine Ardagh on the show this morning. She spoke about the lack of disability services and the difficulties she faced in getting a school place for her son.

Catherine Ardagh TD on search for an autism school place for her son | The Oliver Callan Show

Eileen Fahey Chair of Kilteevan Tidy Towns talked to us on the Cloonlarge Bog when we took a guided walk on Heritage Week August 16th 2025

Eileen Fahey on Cloonlarge Bog Walk - Heritage Week August 16 2025

'What did we do, when we knew?" is the powerful question posed by Michael Long at the end of his presentation. Not knowing is no longer our excuse in climate, environment or biodiversity crises - so what we do and how we respond is the challenge. 
Fr Michael Long is a volunteer and Director at Cabragh Wetlands Trust, Tipperary. Cabragh Wetlands is a story of community activism to protect nature, biodiversity and place where the local people stood up to defend the conservation of the area as a nature reserve after the closure of the Sugar factory in Thurles when the view was the land would become a municipal dump. Michael Long has worked not just to protect and restore nature, biodiversity and land but to ensure Cabragh Wetlands, as a community-led initiative, becomes a place of learning and engagement for all on our relationship with nature. Michael was one of our guest speakers at our July 26th National Library Bogland - Between the sights of the sun - event for International Bog Day - hosted in partnership with the National Library and with the Seamus Heaney 'Listen Now Again' exhibition. We took Heaney's poem 'Bogland' as our frame and inspiration and Michael, in his presentation, shared his own approach to wetlands restoration and how people, places and nature are intrinsically interwoven and interconnected. Our future rests on how we restore not just the land, like wetlands, but our relationship, our 'earth literacy' with nature and our planet. 
To find out more about Cabragh Wetlands go to : https://cabraghwetlands.ie
and to find out more about Tóchar Stories go to https://www.tocharwetlands.ie/tochar-stories/
Tóchar Wetlands Restoration is a 3 year project focussed on wetlands restoration in the Midlands of Ireland co-funded by Irish Government and EU under the Just Transition Programme in Ireland. It is managed by National Parks and Wildlife Services through the Dept of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Tóchar Stories is curated by Helen Shaw - Athena Media - who have been commissioned to manage the project across 2025 and 2026. You can contact Helen on tocharstories @ gmail . com

Michael Long - Cabragh Wetlands - Bogland presentation July 26 2025

Seamus Corcoran is Chair of the Lemanaghan Heritage and Bog Conservation Group and we invited him to be one of our guest speakers at the Bogland - between the sights of the sun - International Bog Day event on July 26 2025 in the National Library. Seamus is a local historian who shared the rich heritage and archeology of his place, and the story of the early Christian treasures which have been found buried and preserved in the bog there. 
Lemanaghan community has a long running campaign to oppose the proposed BnM wind farm on Lemanaghan which was a cut peatlands bog under Bord na Móna. For Seamus and many of his neighbours in the area the land there has already contributed enough, has been harvested enough, and they wish to see it conserved and the archaeological riches that may be buried within the bog preserved and saved. 
In this audio version of the presentation by Seamus - Helen Shaw - Tóchar Stories curator introduces him to the live audience in the Seamus Heaney Listen Now Again exhibition venue space and starts by asking him about what the bog and the concept of the boglands means to him.
To find out more about Tóchar go to https://www.tocharwetlands.ie/tochar-stories/ 
Tóchar is a Wetlands restoration project in the Midlands of Ireland co-funded by Irish Government and the EU under the Just Transition Programme in Ireland. It is managed by NPWS through the Dept of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. 
You can find out more about Lemanaghan through some videos that also feature Seamus and tell the story :https://youtu.be/emrm_H78iFc?si=ur1Gw3lFO0PGHJpp

Seamus Corcoran - Lemanaghan Bog  -  Bogland Presentation July  26 2025

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy chats to Dermot Whelan on the Oliver Callan Show about his new film Steve, bringing the premiere to Cork and his surprise DJ set. 

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy on his new film Steve | The Oliver Callan Show

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