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This year's peat harvest is more than four times the amount produced during 2012

Bord na Móna reports 'exceptional' peat harvest

Bord na Móna has said its total peat harvest for 2013 amounted to 166% of its target for the year.

Water would be extracted during the winter months from the River Shannon

Bord na Móna to apply for reservoir permission

Bord na Móna has said it is ready to apply for planning permission for a new water reservoir on a 1,200-acre site near Portarlington in Co Laois.

News • 22 Jul 13

Bord na Móna said an exceptional harvest this year had helped it recover

Poor peat harvest in 2012 cost Bord na Móna €23.5m

Last year's catastrophic peat harvest cost Bord na Móna over €20m, the head of the company has revealed.

Business • 22 Jul 13

Bord na Móna staff are still engaged in voluntary monitoring of key bogs after work in the evenings

Bord Na Móna reaches 100% of annual peat harvest

Ten days of warm weather have paid off for Bord Na Móna as the company has achieved 100% of its annual peat harvest target with five months still left in the year.

News • 15 Jul 13

Bord Na Móna is hoping to achieve 100% of its target harvest for 2013

Good turf harvesting thanks to fine weather

Bord na Móna has harvested 80% of its target turf yield for the year thanks to the recent spell of fine weather.

News • 08 Jul 13

Bord na Móna said reserves have been reduced significantly

Contingency plan in place as briquette demand up

Bord Na Móna has confirmed that the demand for peat briquettes in the first three months of the year was 47% higher than for the same period in 2012.

Ireland • 26 Mar 13

A number of issues last year, including bad weather, has reduced Bord Na Móna's stockpile

Demand for peat briquettes up 47% in early 2013

Demand for peat briquettes in the first three months of the year was 47% higher than for the same period in 2012, according to Bord Na Móna.

Business • 26 Mar 13

Protest at Bord na Móna headquarters

Around 40 workers protested outside Bord Na Móna's headquarters in Newbridge, Co Kildare this morning.

News • 18 Oct 12

Bord na Móna chief denies 'major financial crisis'

Chairman-designate of Bord na Móna John Horgan has said there is no major financial crisis at the company.

News • 21 Sep 12

An Oireachtas Committee has heard that a letter of no confidence in Bord na Móna CEO Gabriel D'Arcy has been circulated by unions

Bord na Móna chairman-designate defends CEO

Bord na Móna chairman-designate John Horgan has said he has every confidence in the company's CEO Gabriel D'Arcy.

Business • 21 Sep 12

Bord na Móna to let 105 seasonal employees go

105 seasonal employees at the semi-state waste and energy company, Bord na Móna, are to lose their jobs as a result of this year's poor peat harvest.

Business • 18 Sep 12

105 Bord na Móna seasonal staff to lose jobs

Bord na Móna has said that 105 seasonal employees are to lose their jobs as a result of this year's poor peat harvest.

News • 18 Sep 12

Bord na Móna reports worst harvest since 1946

Management and unions at Bord Na Móna are to meet to discuss the implications of the company's worst peat harvest returns since Bord Na Móna was set up in 1946.

Business • 07 Sep 12

Over 2.5m tonnes of peat were lost this summer

Unions to meet Bord na Móna management

Management and unions at Bord Na Móna are to meet next week to discuss the implications of the company's worst peat harvest returns since the company was set up in 1946.

News • 07 Sep 12

Bord na Móna reports a loss of €2.9m to March 2011

Bord na Móna today reported a pre-tax loss of €2.9m in the year to the end of March 2012.

Business • 23 Jul 12

Briquette production will be worst affected by the action

Hundreds of Bord Na Móna workers in two-day strike

Workers at Bord Na Móna are taking part in two days of strike action in a dispute over pay at the company.

News • 28 Jun 12

Bord na Móna unions to escalate strike action

Unions at Bord na Móna are to escalate their industrial action following a meeting in Tullamore, Co Offaly today.

News • 11 Jun 12

Picket on Bord na Móna peat briquette factory in Derrinlough, Co Offaly

1,000 Bord na Móna workers take part in strike

More than 1,000 Bord na Móna workers in the midlands have taken part in a one-day strike in a dispute over pay increases at the company.

News • 06 Jun 12

Workers at Bord na Móna rejected a new offer on pay

Bord na Móna unions call strike for next Tuesday

Unions at Bord na Móna have called a day of strike action for next Tuesday after workers at the peat company turned down a new offer on pay.

News • 29 May 12

Irish Water to be subsidiary of Bord Gáis - Hogan

Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan has announced the establishment of Irish Water - it will be a subsidiary of Bord Gáis.

News • 18 Apr 12

Bord na Móna unions to recommend pay offer

The Bord Na Móna group of unions has decided to recommend to workers the acceptance of a new pay offer aimed at averting strike action at the company.

News • 13 Apr 12

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