Rural Life
Following this incident, the gardaí are reminding people of the correct licence they must obtain while towing a trailer/caravan.....
Beef
The sheep sale at Athenry Mart, Co. Galway, has been cancelled today, Monday, January 15, the chair of the mart has confirmed.
Agri-Business
The National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) has received 4,429 applications for deer-hunting licences for the 2022-2023 season
A new extension to the expiry dates of driving licences due to lapse over the coming months has...
Agri Politics
The Driver Theory Test "must be classified as an essential service" - with numerous essential workers "needing to secure a driving licence".
Forestry
The Department of Agriculture "is consistently making its own targets", according to Forest Industries Ireland (FII).
More than 85,000 tractors/excavators/dumpers were registered in Ireland in 2019, according to a report from the Central Statistics Office.
Machinery
177 tractors were licensed for the first time last month (September 2020) according to the latest data from the Central Statistics Office.
In an interview with AgriLand, managing director of GP Wood in Cork Niall Grainger has said that he is now importing timber from abroad.
The Taoiseach has been called on to prevent the potential loss of up to 10,000 direct and indirect jobs in the licensed merchants sector.
There is "no sign of the chaos within the forestry felling and licencing system being effectively addressed", according to Carol Nolan.
The Irish forestry sector's throughput system is currently "crippled" due to hold-ups in obtaining planting and felling licences.
The logjam in obtaining planting and felling licences from the Forest Service is "clogging up the whole system", one forest stakeholder says.
The plan to address the backlog of forestry licences "discriminates against farm forests and could signal the end of farmer planting".
The government is to proceed speedily with implementing forestry-related commitments in the Programme for Government, Minister Hackett says.
Minister Hackett has outlined that the department has a "detailed project plan" in place to tackle the issue of licence backlogs in forestry.
The government has been urged to "immediately address the crisis evolving within forestry as a result of serial objection to licences".
The backlog in the approval of forestry felling licences was raised as a key concern by Labour Party TD Seán Sherlock.
Licences for tree felling and forest roads issued in the month of March continue to show an improved rate on the previous months.
Members of An Garda Síochána seized 10 unlicensed guns on an organised "Firearms Day of Action" in Co. Roscommon last month.
The Irish forest sector is facing a deepening crisis with 1,000 jobs immediately at risk in the forest contracting sector, according to FII.
The appeal involved a contractor. It centred around a question over a driving licence. The appeal has been upheld, according to the FCI.
Yet another jeep driver has been pulled over by Gardai this week for pulling a trailer without the proper licence.
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