Rural Life
Vandals caught setting bale alight - while still in a baler
Two teenagers were caught red-handed attempting to set a hay bale alight – while the bale was still inside the...
Rural Life
Two teenagers were caught red-handed attempting to set a hay bale alight – while the bale was still inside the...
Environment
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has issued a new Condition Orange ‘High Fire Risk’ in all areas...
Rural Life
A farmer in Co. Westmeath was nearly trapped by two fires which broke out on his land last week and...
Rural Life
Fire breaks had to be set up today to protect a 50ac corn field from the spread of gorse and...
Rural Life
Firefighters across the country are battling to control gorse and wild fires that have broken out, with counties Meath, Dublin...
Machinery
Projected temperature highs of 30° will have haymakers nationwide raring to go this week. However, the Association of Farm &...
N.Ireland
Police in Antrim are appealing for information following two suspected arson incidents at Greenmount Campus last night (Wednesday, May 30,...
N.Ireland
A total of 48 firefighters were called in to battle a gorse fire in Co. Antrim – which spread over...
Rural Life
Following on from yesterday evening’s fire, which broke out at Carrick-on-Suir Livestock Mart in Co. Tipperary, the mart operators have announced...
Rural Life
Fire fighters are currently battling a “large blaze” that broke out at Carrick-on-Suir Livestock Mart in Co. Tipperary late this...
Agri-Business
A number of fire crews in the midlands were called to a farm to quench a silage pit which had...
Rural Life
Bales of hay and some farm machinery were destroyed during a shed blaze in the west of Ireland last weekend....
N.Ireland
Tractors and farm equipment were damaged in a recent shed fire, while around 60 4X4 round bales of straw were...
Rural Life
There has reportedly been a fire at a hay barn in Co. Laois earlier this evening (Thursday, November 9), according...
Rural Life
Machinery, worth hundreds of thousands of euros, has been destroyed in a major fire at a contractor’s yard in Co....
Rural Life
An estimated 6,000t of baled straw went up in flames in the UK recently, with three fire crews called in to...
Rural Life
Ferbane and Birr fire brigades attended what they described as a “hay barn fire” near Banagher, Co. Offaly earlier this...
Tillage
A field of barley in Co. Meath was partially damaged after a fire began in “suspicious circumstances” on Sunday, July...