Rural Life
French farmers bring Tour de France to standstill with protest
Protesting French farmers brought the Tour de France to a temporary standstill earlier today, with bales of hay reportedly being...
Rural Life
Protesting French farmers brought the Tour de France to a temporary standstill earlier today, with bales of hay reportedly being...
Rural Life
The Compassion in World Farming volunteer group will hold a protest against live exports at the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin,...
Rural Life
French farmers launched a major protest in Toulouse during the week, blocking main routes to the city and making their...
Opinion
The month of June 2017 was marked by the passing of Robert Overend. The Co. Derry man was an elite...
Beef
Irish and European farmers are being “thrown to the wolves” when it comes to the Mercosur deal, according to the...
Beef
Hundreds of farmers from across the country have joined an IFA protest against the Mercosur trade deal outside the EU...
Beef
The live export trade is vital to Irish farmers to ensure competition for the livestock sector, rather than being completely...
Rural Life
A petition starter listed as ‘Compassion in Ireland’ has announced plans to hold a protest against live exports from this...
Pig/Poultry
A community in Co. Derry is continuing their fight against the proposed building of a major pig farm in the...
Rural Life
A group of demonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine today, July 18,...
Rural Life
A Co. Galway man, who had to change his farming practices after sustaining serious injury in a farm accident, has...
Tillage
Members of the Irish Farmers’ Associations’ (IFA) West Cork Grain Committee are seeking a meeting with the Minister for Agriculture,...
Rural Life
The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has agreed to move straw bales slightly away from the Department of Agriculture building in...
Agri-Business
Farmers, those in the farm supply chain business, hauliers and any business and individuals affected by Brexit, are being asked...
Sheep
Members of ICSA’s sheep committee protested outside Irish Country Meats’ Navan factory earlier today. A letter from the group was...
Tillage
Tillage farmers staged a protest outside Leinster House today, calling on the Minister for Agriculture to provide a crisis fund...
Tillage
Pressure looks set to increase on the Government today to provide a crisis fund for tillage farmers who were severely...
Tillage
Tillage farmers will be staging a protest outside of the Dail on Wednesday, to highlight the lack of support they...