The first FSC-certified guitar to enter Ireland is confiscated by Airport Customs.
A grueling bus and plane trip that took Tom Roche founder of Rhode-based forest conservation organisation Just Forests,  to the Martin Guitar Company in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, to collect a donation of a guitar ends in disappointment. On his arrival from New York Mr Roche had the guitar taken from him at Dublin Airport  by Customs Officials. Mr Roche has expressed great disappointment at the development as the generous donation by C.F. Martin’s CEO Mr Chris Martin, was to be used by Just Forests to raise funds to develop an education program that would see all musical instruments used in Ireland being made of ‘tonewoods’ from responsibly managed forests worldwide.