Rural Life
Extra vigilance urged on rural roads as deer rutting season to begin
With the Irish deer population at high levels, drivers are urged to be extra vigilant on the roads, especially rural...
Rural Life
With the Irish deer population at high levels, drivers are urged to be extra vigilant on the roads, especially rural...
Environment
Chairperson of the Wild Deer Association of Ireland (WDAI), Ger O’Brien, is passionate about the countryside and the wild deer...
Environment
A nationally coordinated initiative to monitor deer in Ireland, involving a new smartphone app and a web-based survey, has been...
Agri Politics
New research confirming the link between Sika deer and the spread of bovine TB “must inform the TB eradication strategy...
Rural Life
The application process for the 2021-2022 deer hunting season is now open, Minister of State for heritage and electoral reform...
Rural Life
An individual claiming to be associated with the Wicklow Uplands Council, and its Wicklow Deer Management Project, had called to farmers in...
Environment
If you ever thought that Santa would have a hard time herding and foddering reindeer in the total winter darkness...
Rural Life
People are being urged to report illegal deer hunters following the discovery of deer heads, legs and innards in Co....
Rural Life
Wicklow Uplands Council has warmly welcomed the signing of a contract for sustainable deer management services in Co. Wicklow. Following...
Rural Life
The signing of a contract with the Wicklow Uplands Council for the provision of deer management services in Wicklow has...
Rural Life
A new project is set to address the “unsustainably high deer populations” in Co. Wicklow, the Department of Agriculture, Food...
Rural Life
Gardai have issued a warning to rural drivers to watch out for deer in rural areas displaying deer signs, following...
Beef
Increased TB testing on culled deer has been called for in Co. Wicklow – to ascertain the true extent of...
Rural Life
First-time applicants for deer hunting licences may have to undergo appropriate training and a certification process in the future, according...
Rural Life
Gorse burning has been mooted as a possible solution to the deer problem facing farmers in Co. Wicklow, the ICSA’s...
Rural Life
A farmer out of season can’t shoot deer and that law is going to have to be changed, Pat O’Reilly,...
Rural Life
If you take the TB issue out of the debate, deer are an economic issue to farmers because they’re grazing...
Rural Life
Farmers’ hands are tied when it comes to the deer problem in Co. Wicklow, Tom Stephenson, an Irish Cattle and...