Rural Life
Mountmellick flooding causes hardship for farmers
Last week’s catastrophic flash flooding in Mountmellick, Co. Laois, forced a number of residents to evacuate their homes. It also...
Rural Life
Last week’s catastrophic flash flooding in Mountmellick, Co. Laois, forced a number of residents to evacuate their homes. It also...
Rural Life
Recent heavy rainfall has caused havoc in parts of the country, as Met Eireann has issued a number of other...
Rural Life
Farmers in Co. Donegal are racing to bring in their harvest as more rain sweeps the county, threatening further floods....
Rural Life
The European Commission has been urged to investigate possible emergency aid to help those affected by last week’s flash flooding...
N.Ireland
One week on, farmers and their families affected by the flooding in the northwest of the province are still coming...
Rural Life
Farmer Seamus McColgan from Iskaheen, Muff, Co. Donegal, is said to be “quite shaken” after the tractor he was driving...
Rural Life
The flooding that struck the north-west of the country has left a trail of devastation in its wake in both...
Rural Life
Last night’s downpour of rain has caused flooding in areas in the north-west of the country today (Wednesday, August 23),...
Environment
Farmers will be able to draw down more money if their land or farmyard is flooded under new criteria issued...
Rural Life
A Co. Galway farmer has spoken of the mental strain of dealing with flooding, which he said “takes the heart...
Environment
The Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Flood Relief, Seán Canney, said 2016...
Rural Life
Freezing weather conditions affects farming in several ways and to help give advice to farmers on what to do in...
Environment
Prior to any Voluntary Farm Building Relocation Scheme, a range of issues would need to be considered, an interim report...
Rural Life
The possibility of a voluntary farmyard relocation scheme is being discussed by the Government’s Interdepartmental Flood Policy Co-ordination Working Group....
Rural Life
Problems arising from the flooding from the Shannon will not be solved in one winter, Minister of State at the Department of...
Rural Life
Hundreds of farmers are protesting outside the Civic Offices in Athlone to coincide with the OPW public consultation on the...
Rural Life
Farmers and farming families are still under siege from rising flood waters at a number of turloughs in Roscommon and Galway, Fianna...
CAP / Schemes
In response to the recent winter floods a Fodder Aid Scheme was launched to compensate farmers for losses of fodder...