Rural Life
ISPCA encourages public to report any animal welfare concerns
The ISPCA is encouraging members of the public to continue reporting any animal welfare concerns that they may have. This...
Rural Life
The ISPCA is encouraging members of the public to continue reporting any animal welfare concerns that they may have. This...
N.Ireland
Belfast-based livestock monitoring technology company CattleEye has closed a $2.5 million (€2.1 million) seed investment round. The money has come...
Dairy
Teagasc and University College Cork (UCC) have partnered to host the eighth International Conference on the Assessment of Animal Welfare...
Agri Politics
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has been called on to “clarify why he has brought a...
Rural Life
A number of dogs were seized from a premises in Co. Cavan over suspected animal welfare offences, according to An...
Rural Life
A unique agri-tourism business promoting organic food, sustainable farming and processing is set to invest €7m and create upwards of...
Agri Politics
The Animal Welfare Grant Programme for Registered Animal Charities for 2021 has been announced by the Department of Agriculture, Food...
Pig/Poultry
The European Commission has pledged to table a legislative proposal by the end of 2023, to prohibit – on a...
N.Ireland
A petition signed by thousands of people across the island calling for a central register of animal cruelty offenders has...
Rural Life
The first-ever chair of animal welfare and veterinary ethics at University College Dublin’s (UCD) School of Veterinary Medicine was appointed...
Agri Politics
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine regularly takes “continuing additional measures” to further enhance and safeguard animal welfare...
Pig/Poultry
Caged farming could be phased out across Europe by 2027 according to the European Parliament’s Agriculture Committee. It called on...
Agri Politics
The UK will ban live exports of animals for fattening and slaughter as part of a new law on animal...
Agri Politics
This week, MEPs debated a citizens’ initiative to ban the use of caged farming in the EU. The public hearing...
N.Ireland
New research led by Queen’s University Belfast has found that total confinement systems may negatively impact the ‘optimism’ of dairy...
N.Ireland
Proposals have been floated for an all-island animal cruelty register to crack down on banned animal keepers moving between jurisdictions to...
Agri Politics
An Irish MEP has been appointed a full member of the European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Animal Transport (ANIT)....
Beef
The recently published Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance (RUMA) ‘Targets Task Force Report 2020’ confirms that sales of...