✨Overview of the Planning System for Communities✨ Open to everyone, please share! Workshop featuring guidance on participatory planning, what your community needs to know and updates in the planning system. When: 10-1 pm Tue 16th Sep Where: Online, register ➡️ www.eventbrite.ie/e/overview-o...

Heritage Week is running from 16th-24th August! You can view and filter events by location and keyword on www.heritageweek.ie. Our favourite keywords are 'bog', 'peat', and 'wetland'. Check out our top picks below and find direct links to each of these events here: mailchi.mp/895b0a7953d6...

Two weeks till the Bog Trotters Festival! ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/bog-trotte... 📍Clara, Co. Offaly 📆19-22 June ✨HIGHLIGHTS✨ ▪️Nature walks & talks ▪️Art, crafts & theatre ▪️Bog ore smithing & knife-making demo ▪️Summer Solstice Celebration with live music and a BBQ by Island Farm Foods ▪️On-site camping

We had a brilliant time hosting the Finnish Bog 2.0 project, led by Simo Häyrynen, last week as they learned about Irish peatlands and the Just Transition. Everyone found it a really enjoyable and informative trip! Thank you to all who facilitated meetings and field trips over the three days 🧵1/2

Inspired by Scohaboy,terrific new creation by local artists Leisa Gray & Andy Spearpoint 👏👏 @tocharstories.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @peatlands.bsky.social

Exploring the @nlireland.bsky.social for bog stories - particularly of Lemanaghan and found this catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0... - James o'Dea the photographer of the Bord na Móna railway line in 1959 for the harvested peat #tócharstories Anyone know who they are? @communitywetlands.bsky.social

Busy May with our AGM, @tocharstories.bsky.social conference & Biodiversity Week (pictured sunset walk by @scohaboybog.bsky.social). This week, we're hosting a Finnish peatland group, with a rainy start at @peatlandconserve.bsky.social. Coming up: 19-21 June, Bog Trotters🎉 forms.gle/c7r7tSBazdzk...

Visiting with Pat Feehily in Roscommon today - what a remarkable, uplifting story of community moving to nature conservation - #RedGrouseProject #BallydanganBog - and what a day to be with him in such a beautiful place #Tócharstories @communitywetlands.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka3w...

@irishenvnet.bsky.social Biodiversity Week is on from 16th - 25th May! Our members have organised events exploring wetlands through the lens of ecology, art, traditional knowledge and community engagement ➡️ communitywetlandsforum.ie/events. The full events programme is on www.biodiversityweek.ie 🎉

Launching tomorrow 10th May at Esker Arts Centre Tullamore Co. Offaly at 3pm. Honoured to have my work featured in this prestigious exhibition. All are welcome 💕 @communitywetlands.bsky.social @peatlandecr.bsky.social @fintankelly.bsky.social eskerarts.ie/events/bogskin

Join us this Thursday in Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath! Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/community-...

@irisharchitecturef.bsky.social has an open call for an artist to work with local communities during the 2025 Bog Bothy Tour. It is supported by Creative Ireland, Offaly County Council & Meath County Council. Apply by 9th May: tr.ee/rVUjGx Photo: Shane Hynan, Bog Bothy Building Workshop, Aug 2024.

Fully agree with @rayofoghlu.bsky.social 👏,’real change comes through dialogue’ and honouring our neighbours decency,this is the key to Scohaboy’s success story👍 @tocharstories.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social

We're hiring a Development Officer to engage with current members, to grow our membership, and to build public awareness of the Community Wetlands Forum through communications and outreach activities. View details: communitywetlandsforum.ie/development-.... Deadline: 17:00 Sun 18th May. #jobfairy

Our 2025 Networking Workshop & AGM is almost here! 📆 10 am on Thursday, 8th May 2025 📍 Tyrrellspass Castle, Co. Westmeath. We're excited to announce three sessions on citizen science, risk management for community groups, and the planning system. Register now: www.communitywetlandsforum.ie/events

The CWF Technical Advisory Committee's recent study trip was led by Jim Ryan and hosted by Ciara & Adrian Egan, plus members of the Lemanaghan Heritage Group. The old roadways, Bord na Móna rehabilitation, and paludiculture plots inspired discussions on the different ways we value or use peatlands.

Great to catch up with @tocharstories.bsky.social & @communitywetlands.bsky.social today at Lemanagh Bog Group, seeing An Slí Mór Tochar at rewetted Derrnagun Bog & Paludiculture demonstration at Egan’s Farm @jamierohu.bsky.social @aoife-greene.bsky.social @peatlands.bsky.social

Ancient Horsetail, a living fossil older than the dinosaurs, emerging from the bog pools @communitywetlands.bsky.social @charleenhurtubise.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social @peatlandecr.bsky.social

On Saturday, we joined our member group, Kilteevan Tidy Towns, for their photography workshop with @tocharstories.bsky.social and artist Shane Hynan. We practised telling a narrative through compelling photo composition at the Cloonlarge Bog Loop. We saw lots of Hare's tail cottongrass & Bog myrtle!

Hare's Tail Bog cotton is coming into bloom, ready to dance in the Spring sunshine @peatlandecr.bsky.social @scohaboybog.bsky.social @charleenhurtubise.bsky.social @claireissimo.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social

Walk’n’talk this Thursday with Coillte Ecological Team on ecological restoration plans with our two community partnership sites @npwsireland.bsky.social @jamierohu.bsky.social @communitywetlands.bsky.social @tinaclaffey.bsky.social @tocharstories.bsky.social @whittledaway.bsky.social

You have until 20th April to see BogSkin at @rha-arts.bsky.social➡️ rhagallery.ie/events/exhib...! It celebrates the relationship of art to the bogs over the past 50 years. Keep an eye out for pieces by friends of the Community Wetlands Forum — @tinaclaffey.bsky.social, Fiona McDonald & Shane Hynan.

Well done to Offaly County Council on the www.offaly.ie/offaly-biodiversity-action-plan launch at today's conference👏Community Wetlands Forum members, Clara Heritage Society & @abogslife.bsky.social , were delighted to attend & share copies of the Beginner's Guide to Wetlands! View PDF: tr.ee/x5ykD8

Snipe in the Flow Bog , Co Cavan . Camaflague , blink and you’ll miss it @communitywetlands.bsky.social