Environment
An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment have urged the government to scrap a consultation on legal cost rules for environmental cases.
The milk in your coffee could soon have a smaller environmental footprint, thanks to a new project exploring how alternative livestock feeds.
Beef
With the arrival of the new year, the reopening of the slurry spreading season is fast approaching...
The facility will develop technologies that convert grass into a range of products, including animal feeds and bioenergy.
A new UCD study has revealed that bumblebee workers are getting smaller in areas with high honeybee activity.
Farmers have recorded almost 23,000 moths in the first year of a monitoring programme run by the National Biodiversity Data Centre.
Rural Life
Prepare for very cold conditions with severe frosts and wintry showers as Met Éireann has issued a number of weather warnings for the weekend.
Agri-Business
Ireland’s largest ever soil sampling programme has completed with 145,000 samples taken from 10,500 Irish farms.
The process is currently underway of developing Ireland's National Restoration Plan ahead of a September 2026 deadline.
The NPWS has raised concerns over designated land relating to a water abstraction licence application by a dairy plant.
A Status Yellow snow and ice warning has been issued in Northern Ireland.
Viruses found in peatlands could play a more important role in carbon storage than previously thought and become indicators of ecosystem health.
March currently has "the highest likelihood of above average rainfall" in the first three months of 2026 according to latest forecasts.
With its glossy green foliage and radiant red berries, holly is one of Ireland's most familiar and easily recognisable native trees.
Ireland is one of eight European countries to be awarded the BIOMAPE project, a European Commission...
The European Commission today (Monday, December 22) officially extended Ireland's nitrates derogation for a further three years.
DAFM today (Monday, December 22) warned farmers to be mindful of upcoming key nitrates deadlines for 2025.
MEP for the Midlands North West, Ciaran Mullooly has welcomed the vote in the European Parliament...
The European Commission has welcomed the final vote by the European Parliament and the EU Council...
Uisce Éireann has submitted a planning application for the largest-ever water project in Irish...
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has opened a new round of funding in the National Barrier Mitigation Scheme.
A Status Yellow thunderstorm warning has been issued for two counties.
Agri Politics
A University of Galway academic has been appointed chief scientist of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations.
