“I will keep you briefed on developments.” This is how, on May 1, 2024, the head of land at Bord na Móna, Ger Breen, signed off on an email, marked classified, to CEO Tom Donnellan. The email was also sent to the commercial semi-state’s head of corporate affairs and its legal counsel. The serious matter at hand? Unauthorised peat extraction by a third party on company lands.  There was, Breen described, a “trespassing incident” at Garrymore Bog in Co Offaly by an individual who milled over 400 acres of bog and was “gearing up to harvest the peat”.  The case…

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