Agri-Business
Over 600 apply for Bord na Mona redundancy scheme
More than 600 Bord na Mona (BNM) employees have applied for the semi-state company’s €40 million voluntary redundancy scheme, it...
Agri-Business
More than 600 Bord na Mona (BNM) employees have applied for the semi-state company’s €40 million voluntary redundancy scheme, it...
Rural Life
More than 200 sheep have been killed when the lorry they were travelling in overturned in a crash on a...
Rural Life
The launch of the Health and Safety Authority’s (HSA’s) “Strategy Statement 2019-21” has been announced by Minister for Trade, Employment,...
Agri-Business
Almost 22,000 Irish horses were slaughtered for human consumption abroad over the last three years, according to the Department of...
Grass
Thriving grass growth has seen ‘Silage 2019’ kick off exceptionally early in Moate, Co. Westmeath, in recent days with mowers...
Rural Life
Representatives from 24 European Union member states convened in Athlone last week to discuss a range of issues relating to...
Environment
Community groups across the country are up in arms over wind farm proposals in areas where planning permission had previously...
Rural Life
Preparations are well underway for the “Horticulture Open Day” in Kildalton College later this week, according to education partner Waterford...
Rural Life
Gardai have issued an appeal for information following the theft of a trailer and two ride-on lawns from the midlands....
Rural Life
Early this morning a farmer in Kilkenny ensured that a pack of dogs had worried their last sheep. Sheep farmer...
Rural Life
Applications are now being accepted for a series of food and drink postgraduate scholarship programmes, offered by Bord Bia and...
Rural Life
Anyone who was involved in Macra na Feirme in Wexford in the past is invited to get in touch with...
Rural Life
A total of 337 vehicles were seized from unaccompanied learner drivers between December 22, 2018 and February 10, 2019, because...
Rural Life
Forestry services have been called out for not practising what they preach in Leitrim by the county’s Irish Farmers’ Association...
Rural Life
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has claimed that the rise on the limit for state aid for farmers will be...
Agri-Business
Last year a total of 1,100 farmers declared donkeys and 540 farmers declared horses to achieve minimum stocking levels for...
Agri Politics
At a recent Crossmolina Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) annual general meeting (AGM) members “decided” that the branch in Co. Mayo...
Rural Life
After putting baler twine to various uses on a farm summer job, a Meath student was inspired to create a...