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SAVE LEITRIM a large engo group of like minded people raising concerns about many impacts of blanket sitka afforestation on Leitrim's communities & citizens.❌🌲

Leitrim, Ireland Katılım Ocak 2018
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Based on our experiences in #Leitrim /around the country @coilltenews Are falling way short on biodiversity. Its not part of their statutiory remit. In direct opposiition/conflict to their sole profit remit. Spending on biodiversity takes from profits ? m.independent.ie/regionals/wick…
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Paul Lawless TD@1PaulLawless·
We cannot allow foreign investors and private equity to buy up Irish farmland. Fianna Fáil & Fine Gael have opened the door - pricing farmers out of their own market. Every hectare sold to a hedge fund is a hectare not producing food.
The Week in Politics@rtetwip

Aontú's @1PaulLawless speaks on corporations displacing rural communities. #RTETWIP rebroadcasts at 23:05 tonight on @RTEOne

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What kind of a country have we become when such one sided commercially produced propaganda tripe is being paid for by taxpayers and endorsed by @MHealyRae to indocterinate our children.
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Good to hear the Forestry Industry challenged on RTEliveline today. Sending inaccurate information to Primary Schools about Sitka Spruce, is a new low for the Forest Industry. A reminder to all Primary School Teachers today is World Curlew day. Two sides to every story.#Curlew
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Certainly but sitka spruce is not the bee all and end of all in terms of forestry and trees. SS🌲 is responsible for a lot of harm. It is like promoting diesel engines only to kids in school as a climate change solution?
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Aspect Forestry and Rural Management@AspectForest

@SaveLeitrim @cetherncoille Generally, I think this project is a great initiative. Teaching children about forestry and timber production is such a positive thing, I wish we had a similar project here in England. It’s always about good practice but education about an essential resource is a great move.

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Shocking that children will be indoctrinated with such industry produced propaganda without balance paid for by taxpayers through either the Dept of Agriculture or Dept of Education. 🌲SS is a socially culturally, environmentally damaging invasive species agriland.ie/farming-news/b…
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Looks like @MHealyRae is protecting his own political skin & voting no confidence in a Government that he is part of so voting no confidence in himself. An offramp also out of the 🌲🌲mess he is not delivering what he had promised in forestry & agriculture. courage leadership?
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How does a wealthy investor landlord like @MHealyRae empthaise with young poorer farmer /farm family in #Leitrim trying to buy a bit of land locally to expand and to support his/ her family & community competing with wealthy investors backed by @agriculture_ie grants tax breaks?
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Paul Gavan@paul_gavan

Michael Healy-Rae: What does ‘Ireland’s wealthiest TD’ own and what is it worth? “The cap wearing Landlord Minister is a very rich man…property worth €5.6 million…14 houses in Kerry alone….” irishtimes.com/politics/2026/…

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This is happening for a long time in #Leitrim and some of those investors are farmers from other places who will not farm the land but plant 🌲 it as investors with loads of grants & tax breaks from Irish taxpayers. #communitiesnotplantations x.com/i/status/20321…
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Irish Farmers Journal@farmersjournal

Investor-type, non-farmer buyers scooped up over half of the offers hitting the land market last year in parts, a new report from auctioneers group IPAV said. eu1.hubs.ly/H0sBzqy0

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If this damage resulted from farming activity @IFAmedia @farmersjournal the farmer would be prosecuted & would loose payments under breaches of crosscompliance. But this is acceptable to @agriculture_ie forest service @MHealyRae so that profits can be extracted from plantations
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By planting 0ne third of all available land in Co #Leitrim mainly with 🌲 & generously funding it with 🇮🇪 taxpayer funds is a state led land clearance which is shutting down our rural areas & destabilising rural population, services & community sustainability. Why? @MHealyRae
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& @rayofoghlu this one of the main reasons, 8 years ago, @SaveLeitrim started to resist the wholescale cumulative afforestation of #Leitrim by investors (incl investor farmers) funded by taxpayers pushing local farming families off the land & destabilising our rural communities
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