Sheep
Intense competition and amazing skills were on display during the Mountbellew Community Sheep-shearing Festival Shearfest 2025.
Galway Rural Development announced a LEADER grant of almost €130,000 to support the European Sheep Shearing Championships at Mountbellew.
The 2025 European sheep shearing and woolhandling championships will be held in Co. Galway over the June bank holiday weekend.
Dairy
Mountbellew Agricultural College has received planning permission from Galway County Council for a new dairy facility at its campus.
Rural Life
Mountbellew Agricultural Show - this year celebrating its 120th anniversary - will take place on August 24.
The all-Ireland and all nations sheep shearing and woolhandling championships took place at Mountbellew, over the bank holiday weekend.
Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Mountbellew will hold an open day for prospective students on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.
The Franciscans at Mountbellew are appealing for farm equipment for their new agricultural college in north-west Uganda
Mountbellew Agricultural Show in Co. Galway - which takes place on Saturday, September 16 - is entering into its 113th year.
Any policy that focuses on increasing sheep numbers is bad news for sheep farmers, according to the sheep chairman of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association, John Brooks.
Environment
Mountbellew Agricultural College last June was approved to offer the Level 8 Agriculture and Environment Management course, allowing graduates to become GLAS advisors.
Mountbellew Agricultural College in Co Galway is holding a late entrance exam for its Fetac Level 5 course on Thursday morning of this week
Damien McGrath, from Co. Galway, has won the AIB / Teagasc All Ireland Best Farm Business Plan Award.
A recent review of the educational requirements for new GLAS planning roles by the Department of Agriculture has confirmed graduates of Mountbellew do not qualify, according to the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney.
