Ash dieback: caught in limbo with a dying forest

Mary McCormack decided to plant a significant proportion of her lands with hardwoods, believing it to be the right thing to do, but it has cost her dearly as ash dieback bites deep

Pat O'Toole

30 September 2020

Mary McCormack surveys her dead ash plantation.\ Pat O'Toole

Mary McCormack decided to plant her land outside Killenaule in Tipperary having been widowed with a young family.

“I have 160 acres (65ha) planted, with two-thirds Sitka spruce and one third hardwoods, mainly ash.

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