Rural Life
As a farmer active on social media, author Lorna Sixsmith has built up an audience through sharing nuggets from her life on the land.
'Plough Sunday', a service to celebrate the contribution of women to farming, will be celebrated in Staplestown Church, on January 28.
“Women's health (as well as their lives) are at risk in Ireland because of the Eighth Amendment” – that is the opinion of Lorna Sixsmith.
Agri Politics
Dubious remarks made by an IFA regional election candidate have been slammed as "deplorable" by well-known farming author, Lorna Sixsmith.
'Till the Cows Come Home: Memories of a Rural Childhood' by Crettyard, Co. Carlow dairy farmer, Lorna Sixsmith, will be published in May 2018.
A holidaying farmer on Twitter who referenced sunburn and volcanic landscapes was clearly sceptical about the value of breaks.
90-hour weeks, keeping up with the neighbours, and a non-existant social life: Here's how to keep it together when the work won't stop.
