Rural Life
Electric Picnic organisers meet farmers over harvest concerns
The organisers of Electric Picnic have held several meetings with local tillage farmers in Co. Laois to address their concerns...
Rural Life
The organisers of Electric Picnic have held several meetings with local tillage farmers in Co. Laois to address their concerns...
Agri-Business
Farmers in Co. Laois have voiced their opposition to new dates for Electric Picnic as they say it will impact...
Environment
Independent TD for Laois-Offaly Carol Nolan is seeking “urgent clarity” from Bord na Móna over plans for historic peat extraction...
Agri-Business
Owing to the demand of exhibition space at this year’s National Ploughing Championships, a waiting list has been put in...
Rural Life
One of the country’s longest continuously running agricultural shows, the Ossory Show, will take place at Coolfin, Rathdowney in Co....
Rural Life
Laois artist Karen Fingleton may not live on a farm, but she gets plenty of inspiration from animals and the...
Organics
The first ‘Growing Organics’ farm walk takes place next week (Friday, June 2) on the farm of Jason Stanley, Errill,...
Environment
A Co. Laois farmer has been found guilty of two breaches of fisheries legislation for destruction caused at a local...
Rural Life
Gardaí in Co. Offaly have launched an investigation after a tractor was stolen and driven around the Tullamore area before...
Agri-Business
A Laois farmer is tapping into the backstory of his farm brewery to sell his beer throughout Europe. David Walsh-Kemmis,...
Dairy Technical
On Tuesday, April 25 Taaffe Auctions conducted the dispersal sale of the Richvale herd for Richard and Valerie Claxton. The...
Rural Life
Tributes have been pouring in for a 15 year old that died in a quad biking incident on Easter Sunday...
Tillage News
Today (Friday, March 10) the ‘Cairn of Peace’ was officially unveiled in its permanent home at Ratheniska, Co. Laois to...
Agri-Business
The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Pippa Hackett has said that Mountrath...
Rural Life
Traditions, as Liam Delaney knows all too well, are important. On his farm in Co. Laois it is easy to...
Rural Life
A Dutch-born artist who is based in Stradbally, Co. Laois, has been stirring up a debate on the closure of...
Rural Life
Mountmellick Macra’s ‘light up’ truck and tractor run will take place in Mountmellick, Co. Laois on Saturday, December 17, kick-starting...
Agri-Business
The Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland (FCI) will hold its 2022 conference today (Wednesday, December 7) on...