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Bord na Móna upgrades trail at Lough Boora

Bord na Móna is enhancing the visitor experience at Lough Boora Discovery Park in Co Offaly, with the upgrade of the trail network.

Business • 18 Jun

Bord na Móna CEO Tom Donnellan with the innovators who took part in the 2024 Accelerate Green programme

8 SMEs complete Bord na Móna's Accelerate Green Programme

Eight of the country's newest green innovators have completed Bord na Móna's 2024 Accelerate Green programme.

Business • 23 May

Lindsay McQuade, Director of Energy, EMEA at Amazon Web Services and Tom Donnellan, CEO of Bord na Móna

AWS plans data centres as part of Bord na Móna deal

Plans have been announced for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop data centres in the Midlands powered by wind and solar energy as part of …

Business • 01 May

Bord na Móna CEO Tom Donnellan and the 9 Accelerate Green START participants - EVHACS, Airryzen, ReBOT, IFF Plastics, Glowtire, Retrokit, Biota, EVE Mobility and Feighery's Farm Beetroot Juice

9 firms at Bord na Móna's Accelerate Green START scheme

Nine rising Irish start-ups, including companies that manufacture organic beetroot juice and deliver offshore wind modelling using AI, have completed Bord na Móna's 2024 Accelerate …

Business • 25 Apr

John Reilly from Bord na Móna, Heather Donald and Laura Burke from SSE Renewables and Brendan Connolly from Bord na Móna

Bord na Móna and SSE Renewables in onshore wind venture

Bord na Móna and SSE Renewables have teamed up to launch a new onshore wind energy joint venture.

Business • 28 Mar

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Simon Coveney, Chairman of Bord na Móna Geoff Meagher, CEO of Bord na Móna Tom Donnellan and the eight business participants of Bord na Móna 2024 Accelerate Green Programme

8 firms to take part in Bord an Móna's green programme

Eight start-up green businesses from across Ireland which will take part in Bord Na Móna's 2024 Accelerate Green Programme.

Business • 26 Jan

The worker, Daniel Picton, told the Workplace Relations Commission today that he had been complaining to management about excessive hours and inadequate rest periods.

Bord na Móna admits liability in working hours claim

Bord na Móna has admitted "nominal" breaches of working time legislation in the case of a truck driver who said he told his boss he …

Business • 12 Jan

This was up from €78.9m the previous year.

Bord na Móna reports €95m profit - highest in 90 years

Bord na Móna has reported an operating profit of €95.2 million for the financial year to the end of March - the highest in its …

Business • 20 Sep 23

It emerged Bord Na Móna paid its CEO's BIK bill following a series of parliamentary questions (Pic: RollingNews.ie)

Bord na Móna spent €64k on CEO's benefit in kind bill

Semi-state company Bord Na Móna footed the benefit-in-kind tax bill for its chief executive's €127,000 electric BMW and health insurance at a cost of €64,000 …

Ireland • 18 Sep 23

Eduardo Porras, Head of EPC, Voltalia, Mary O'Malley, ESB Commercial Lead, John Reilly, Head of Renewable Energy, Bord na Móna.

Bord na Móna, ESB start construction of new solar farm

Construction of a new solar farm at Timahoe North in Co Kildare is under way as part of a wider solar energy joint venture between …

Leinster • 20 Jul 23

Mercury Renewables CEO John Duffy and COO Tim Bills-Everett

Plans for 2 green hydrogen production projects unveiled

Bord na Móna has secured planning permission for a new 2MW pilot scale Hydrogen Electrolysis Plant in Mount Lucas in Co Offaly.

Business • 14 Jul 23

After more than 60 years, the conveyor belts at Bord na Móna's Derrinlough facility in Co Offaly came to a stop this week

Sadness after last peat briquette factory closes

It was the end of an era this week, with the closure of the last briquette factory in the country. This week, after more than …

Ireland • 04 Jun 23

Dara Calleary, Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation and Tom Donnellan, CEO of Bord na Móna

Eight businesses complete Accelerate Green Programme

Eight businesses from across Ireland have completed the 2023 Accelerate Green Programme, a business accelerator programme that Bord na Móna is investing €5 million in …

Business • 01 Jun 23

Bord na Móna said its new debt facilities will be used to facilitate the build out and operation of renewable energy assets

Bord na Móna secures €430m in new banking facilities

Bord na Móna has put in place a new €160m revolving credit facility along with a €180m letter of credit facility with Bank of Ireland, …

Business • 23 Feb 23

The money will help develop over 50 companies

Bord na Móna to invest €5m more in its accelerator

Bord na Móna is to invest a further €5m in its Accelerate Green accelerator programme over the next three years.

Business • 12 Feb 23

Commercial semi states paid out dividends of €199.4m

Commercial semi-state companies last year paid out aggregate dividends of €199.4 million to the exchequer.

Business • 10 Feb 23

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar at the Ocean Winds and Bord na Móna offshore wind partnership deal event

Bord na Móna agrees windfarm deal with Ocean Winds

Bord na Móna has partnered with international offshore wind developer Ocean Winds to identify, plan and build a number of offshore wind farms.

Business • 23 Nov 22

The ESB is among those that have paid a dividend

Commercial semi-states pay out €179m in dividends

Commercial semi-state companies have to date this year paid out aggregate dividends of €179.4m to the Exchequer.

Business • 22 Sep 22

Bord na Móna is planning to invest €1.6 billion in renewable and sustainable projects over a ten year period as it moves away from peat energy

Bord na Móna sees profit jump to €78.9m

Bord na Móna has reported a near-trebling in its operating profit, as it continued its transition towards renewable energy.

Business • 20 Jul 22

Dublin-based Plus Architecture won the competition to design the Newbridge office

Bord na Móna plans fossil fuel free HQ for Newbridge

Bord na Móna has unveiled plans for a new multi-storey headquarters in Co Kildare, which will be mainly constructed of wood to reduce its carbon …

Leinster • 05 Jul 22

Stock image. The application relates to a 24-turbine windfarm

Permission given to appeal court ruling on windfarm

The High Court judge has allowed An Bord Pleanála permission to appeal his decision to quash a planning permission granted to a subsidiary of Bord …

Business • 26 Oct 21

Accelerate Green will be located at Bord na Móna's existing office complex in Boora, Co. Offaly

'Accelerate Green Programme' launched for businesses

The Government has launched the Bord na Móna funded Accelerate Green Programme, an initiative for the Midlands which will enable companies to scale their business …

Business • 15 Oct 21

Bord na Móna planning renewable energy business park

A new renewable energy business park is to be developed on 3,000 hectares of Bord na Móna land in Meath, Offaly and Westmeath.

Business • 27 Sep 21

885 new jobs as Bord na Móna switches focus to climate

Bord na Móna has said it plans to create a further 885 jobs in the midlands as it transforms into a "climate solutions company" over …

Ireland • 15 Jul 21

Bord na Móna has formally ended all peat harvesting on its lands

Bord na Móna formally ends peat harvesting operations

Bord na Móna has today formally ended all peat harvesting on its lands, as it continues to progress its "brown to green" strategy.

Business • 15 Jan 21