Farm Safety
No helmet used in half of quad-bike accidents - study
No helmet was in use in half of the quad-bike accidents recorded over a six-year period in Ireland, according to...
Farm Safety
No helmet was in use in half of the quad-bike accidents recorded over a six-year period in Ireland, according to...
Agri-Business
Information on work-place safety which is used in other industries could be helpful to the agriculture sector to increase farm...
Rural Life
An online interactive risk-assessment (OiRA) tool to efficiently support farm safety has been launched yesterday (Wednesday, March 9) by representatives...
Rural Life
A young Armagh woman who juggles her pharmacy technician job with the running of a 60+ beef herd with her...
Agri-Business
The Farm Family Draw has been established to ensure that farm families receive the support they need when they need...
Rural Life
Stress and fatigue have been identified as a key cause of agricultural accidents by researchers from the University of Aberdeen....
Rural Life
A TD has raised concerns over the ambulance and air ambulance services in transporting rural people to trauma centres in...
Rural Life
The Irish Community Rapid Response (ICRR) Air Ambulance was tasked to 46 farming accidents last year – amounting to almost...
Rural Life
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with special responsibility for farm safety, Martin Heydon...
Rural Life
Fianna Fáil TD Pádraig O’Sullivan has called on the Department of Health to accede to requests made by consultants in...
Rural Life
When Aengus Mannion eventually got back on his feet three or four years after a very serious accident on a...
Rural Life
When Diane Banville’s husband Kevin (33) died in a farm accident on St. Patrick’s Day 2014 her whole life changed...
Rural Life
When a mother’s five-year-old son tells her he wants to tell his daddy all about his first day at school...
Rural Life
Diane Banville, who is originally from Co. Clare but now living in New Ross, Co. Wexford, is acutely aware now...
Rural Life
By Gordon Deegan A tragic crush accident in Co. Clare last year, which took one man’s life, could have taken...
Rural Life
The financial fall-out as a result of sustaining serious injuries in farm accidents was one of the issues highlighted at...
Rural Life
Embrace FARM, the farm accident support group, will hold a farm accident survivors’ conference in the Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise,...
Rural Life
Farmers are more likely to be killed on-farm than on the roads, according to Eddie Wall, an inspector with the Health...