A Clare forester insists that communities here must benefit from bearing the burden of extra forestry.
If comes after a number of organisations in the Irish forestry sector have condemned a decision by state-owned Coillte to sell 12,000 hectares of woodland to a British investor.
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They say 2.1 billion euro of taxpayers’ money is assisting a foreign entity, which will ultimately drive those in forestry out of the sector.
Former Green Councillor and Forester in Darragh, Brian Meaney says the extra forestry will be grown on marginal land, but he admits there is little benefit to farmers here at the moment.
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