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Community Wetlands Forum
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A network for community-led wetland groups and other stakeholders to share knowledge, ideas, research, and best practices to protect, manage, and wisely use Ireland’s wetlands.

Learn More: https://communitywetlandsforum.ie/
✨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...
September 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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...
August 8, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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
June 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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
June 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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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
May 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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...
May 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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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
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Roscommon bog restoration hailed as 'superstar' project
YouTube video by RTÉ News
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May 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
@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 🎉
May 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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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

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BogSkin | Esker
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May 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Join us this Thursday in Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath! Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/community-...
May 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
@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.
April 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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
April 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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
April 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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
April 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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.
April 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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
April 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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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
April 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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!
April 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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March 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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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
March 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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.
March 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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
March 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Snipe in the Flow Bog , Co Cavan . Camaflague , blink and you’ll miss it @communitywetlands.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM