Rural Life
By Mairtín Ó Catháin The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Connemara Pony Breeders’ Society could...
By Gordon Deegan A Co. Clare farmer has appeared in court charged with drink driving and dangerous driving while driving...
By Anne Lucey Serious damage was caused to a wet heath habitat in a remote area near the Gap of...
By Sorcha Crowley The family of a young farmer who died from multiple blood clots on his lungs after a...
Galway farmer, Michael Scott has been found not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter for the killing of his...
By Gordon Deegan A 63-year-old mother of six who broke the windows of her estranged husband’s tractor with a golf club in a...
Agri-Business
By Gordon Deegan The country’s largest pork processor, Rosderra Irish Meats Group, has been ordered to pay an ex-employee €30,000...
By Eoin Reynolds The barrister for a farmer accused of murdering his aunt has asked a jury at the Central...
Michael Scott reversed over his 76-year-old aunt Chrissie Treacy in a “deliberate act of murder out of a sense of...
News
An accident investigator has told the trial of Co. Galway farmer, Michael Scott that before she died, the accused’s 76-year-old aunt...
By Gordon Deegan Contentious plans for a large-scale extension to a piggery in east Cork, opposed by one of Ireland’s...
By Gordon Deegan A farmer in the Burren in Co. Clare whose cattle herd suffered 63 fatalities over a winter...
By Gordon Deegan Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) president, Tim Cullinan has moved to put the financial performance of his piggery operation in...
Co. Galway farmer, Michael Scott, told Gardaí that when he found his 76-year-old aunt lying on the ground after he had run...
A Central Criminal Court murder trial has heard that dairy farmer Michael Scott was set to lose around 50% of...
By Gordon Deegan The modelling of the continued operation of Abbott Ireland’s infant formula production plant in Co. Monaghan on...
By Gordon Deegan A west Clare man has pleaded guilty to a health and safety breach concerning a fatal farm...
By Gordon Deegan A judge has jailed a 29-year-old Co. Clare man for 14 months for a “bite” assault on...
