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For centuries, the Irish have used peat from bogs to fuel the home fires. Stories of families coming together to bring home "the turf", as peat is called in Ireland, evoke idyllic memories of a poorer but simpler life on the land. But now the Irish government, in the name of fighting climate change, conserving habitat and improving air quality, is moving to restrict the use of peat and finding that it is not easy.