Environment
Seanad passes climate bill
The Seanad has today (Friday, July 9), after nearly six hours of debate, passed the Climate Action and Low Carbon...
Environment
The Seanad has today (Friday, July 9), after nearly six hours of debate, passed the Climate Action and Low Carbon...
Agri Politics
Fine Gael’s Maria Byrne has today (Wednesday, April 21) been elected to the Agricultural Panel of the Seanad. Bye-elections were...
Agri Politics
Nomination papers for Ian Marshall, former President of the Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU), have been lodged with the clerk of...
Agri Politics
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien has said that orders have been made directing that bye-elections be...
Agri Politics
Independent senator Victor Boyhan has called for continued access for farmers to essential livestock medicine. He spoke in the Seanad...
Agri-Business
Fine Gael senator Aisling Dolan has urged Minister of State with responsibility for land use and biodiversity Pippa Hackett to...
Agri Politics
Former Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine chairman Pat Deering has announced his candidacy for the Seanad...
Agri Politics
Fine Gael senator Tim Lombard as been appointed the party’s spokesperson on agriculture, food and the marine in the Seanad....
Agri Politics
The Seanad Election was held yesterday, Tuesday, March 31, to elect 43 of the 60 members for the upper house...
Agri Politics
The former president of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA) has been nominated for a seat in the...
Agri Politics
A grandson of a general in the 1916 Rising has been nominated for a seat in the Seanad on the...
Agri Politics
The Green Party spokesperson for agriculture, Pippa Hackett, has been elected to the Seanad. Commenting earlier today, Friday, November 1,...
Agri Politics
Co. Armagh farmer Ian Marshall has been elected to the Irish Seanad in today’s by-election. Markethill man Marshall was put...
Agri Politics
Ian Marshall, former president of the Ulster Farmers’ Union, says he is “honoured” to be considered for a seat in Seanad...
Rural Life
A greater effort is needed by the government to help promote farm safety across the country, according to Fianna Fail’s...
Agri-Business
The Seanad report on Brexit has proposed that a free trade agreement, for “vulnerable sectors” like agriculture, should be considered...
Environment
A total of 27 wild fires were recorded by the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) during the bird nesting season in...