According to Cllr Smith, farmers who did not plant commercially and have ash trees dying along their road will be at a huge financial expanse to remove them.

The North East Forestry Group has joined with eight other forest owner groups to form a national body, called the Irish Forest Owners. The Westmeath

The forestry industry has "slipped into a massive crisis, where everything is held up". That's according to Simon White, from the Forest Owners Co-