Rural Life
The Supreme Court has ruled that landowners can be compensated for depreciation across their entire land holding when the ESB erects pylons.
A south Co. Galway farmer has told a judge that his life has been turned upside down over his bail ban from Gort and his farm near there.
Agri-Business
A court in the US has ordered Bayer to pay over $2 billion after a jury in a civil trial decided that Roundup caused a man's cancer.
Machinery
Police in England have confirmed that a man has been ordered to pay £873,852.48, for figure heading an Oxfordshire tractor theft operation
Environment
A Belgian farmer and a number of NGOs are attempting to sue a major fossil fuel company, claiming damages as a result of climate change.
Potato farm business Country Crest has been ordered to pay over €88,000 to a neighbouring business after spray drift caused damage to apples.
A judge has told "gentleman farmers" that he has no interest having court time used for a feud between the sides to be played out.
Up to 110ac of land that Michael Scott was farming was set to be taken back by his aunt, who he is accused of murdering in 2018.
A judge has jailed a 29-year-old Co. Clare man for 14 months for a "bite" assault on a farmer in a pub last May.
Breda Moloney called the children "retards" as they undertook a nature walk on St. Brigid's Day, a court has heard.
An assault charge relating to an alleged incident in Ennis mart in 2021 has been dismissed by Judge Mary Larkin.
Gardaí tried to arrest one of the men for suspected drink driving however he did not stop and a confrontation ensued in the farmyard.
A judge has compared a late-night farmyard scene, in which a father and son confronted Gardaí with a calving jack, to the 'wild west'.
A farmer son of Euromillions winner, Dolores McNamara is facing an assault charge arising from an alleged incident at Ennis Mart last August.
A farmer-publican, who sold after-hours alcohol to patrons at Liam O’Riain’s pub in Ballina, Co. Tipperary was fined €200
Clonakilty District Court Judge James McNulty expressed surprise at what he termed the “lamentable ignorance” of a landowner over scrub clearance during the bird nesting season.
N.Ireland
A Castlewellan farmer has been fined £25,000 after a labourer died on his farm during a construction accident. Toirdealbhach Larkin, known..
A 34-year-old Co. Down man has been fined in court for offences relating to the illegal dumping of 5,500t waste on land without a licence.
A north-west farmer has been handed a fine in court after he failed to register calves and notify the department of cattle movements.
A Co. Tyrone farmer has been fined after he was convicted in court of tampering with a bovine TB test.
Northern Ireland's Department of Agriculture has confirmed it is seeking legal advice over two ministerial orders.
Bankruptcy cases are on the rise and farmers may well get caught in the eye of the storm, claims a leading barrister.
A Dungiven farmer has been convicted of five charges relating to failure to record animal movements to and from his farm.
