Rural Life
By Mairtín Ó’Catháin Did Connemara people invent the ‘craic’? It might be a good topic of conversation while the populace...
Dairy
In the last 34 years, Co. Armagh milk haulier Brian Patterson has seen the good and the great of the...
By David Raleigh €21 million worth of suspected cocaine has been seized by customs aboard a cargo ship believed to...
Agri-Business
In a new series of articles on Agriland, agricultural consultant, Philip Farrelly explores the Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) deals on...
Environment
By Gordon Deegan Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is prosecuting Uisce Éireann in connection with a fish kill that occurred in...
By Gordon Deegan The makers of the Glenisk organic yogurt brand last year sustained a €9.59 million revenue hit due...
By Gordon Deegan A judge has told “gentleman farmers” that he has no interest having court time used for a...
By Gordon Deegan A south Galway farmer alleged to have thrown a bag containing cow dung in the direction of Minister for...
By Gordon Deegan A challenge mounted by locals against a large-scale €175 million wind farm, and opposed by Kilkenny hurling great, Henry Shefflin, has...
By Gordon Deegan The plant-hire and civil engineering company owned by outspoken independent Kerry TD and farmer, Danny Healy-Rae enjoyed a record year last year...
By Gordon Deegan Pre-tax profits at the family owned horticulture firm behind McCormack Farms based in Co. Meath, last year...
By Barbara Collins A Galway-based wool business has partnered with two five-star hotels to produce bespoke, king-size wool pillows. Woolow CEO...
Dairy Focus
By Barbara Collins Glastry Farm is a specialised dairy farm which extends to 247ac owned, as well as a further...
By Gordon Deegan The Co. Limerick firm Wyeth Nutritionals, which sells infant formula to markets including China last year recorded...
By Barbara Collins Alan and Wendy Dempster breed sheep on their 50ac farm near Ballymoney in Co. Antrim. It is...
By Gordon Deegan Farmers and residents living in the area around Burren National Park in Co. Clare face “undue chaos...
By Gordon Deegan Post-tax profits at Darina Allen’s Ballymaloe Cookery School last year decreased by 7% to €86,876 as costs increased. The renowned...
Just five years after having a calving season spanning 10 months of the year, a Co. Cavan dairy farm family...