A chara, – Your report on the European Commission’s call to close down turf cutting in special areas of conservation was illustrated with a photograph of two men standing on a bog with shovels (News, September 30th). Most turf cutting is a highly mechanised commercial activity. Large areas of bog are destroyed by diggers, as turf is cut to be exported by the ton.
You should choose photographs that show the reality, not the myth. – Is mise,
RAY CUNNINGHAM,
Walkinstown,
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