Rural Life
Rural broadband prices look set to rise
Rural broadband users could see their bills increase as the Commission for Communications Regulation (Comreg) has found that urban broadband...
Rural Life
Agri-Business
Tayto Park among top 10 tourist attractions
Tayto Park is the 6th most popular tourist attraction in Ireland, according to Fáilte Ireland. The Co. Meath theme park...
Other
Flavours of Fingal this weekend
This weekend sees Dublin’s only agricultural show take place, the Flavours of Fingal. On Saturday and Sunday, at Newbridge House and...
Rural Life
No more free cheese from intervention for charities
Charities are to lose out on free cheese that was available to them under the ‘Most Deprived Scheme’ as the...
Dairy
June 1 is world milk day
Today, Sunday, June 1, is ‘world milk day’ and the United Nations is promoting its attributes as a source of...
Other
Balmoral picture parade
As day two of the Balmoral Show gets underway, those in cattle classes have been busy all morning as our pictures...
Rural Life
Fit families wanted!
Ireland’s Fittest Family series returns and wants to know if your family is fit and up for a challenge. Following...
Rural Life
Roscommon sheep dog trials
Roscommon Lamb Festival 2014 is in its seventh year and takes place this weekend. A key highlight of the festival...
Rural Life
2,000 students take to the fields as new syllabus welcomed
Agricultural science students and their teachers from 70 schools across Ireland closed their textbooks and put on their wellies last...
Rural Life
Kerry Group donates site to Tralee community
Kerry Group is to hand over control of a two-and-a-half acre site of the former Denny plant in Tralee, which...
Rural Life
Live life, love milk
County Kerry showed strong support for The Donal Walsh #Livelife Foundation when more than 600 people attended a health and...
Rural Life
A tale of two rural Ireland's
The need for strategic local planning and development in the next RDP to tackle emigration and youth unemployment across rural Ireland...
Rural Life
Giving agri students a head start
The 6th National finals of the Farm Relief Services Memorial Scholarship took place at the Teagasc/Macra na Feirme Colleges Challenge Day...
Rural Life
BBC TV presenter James Wong to talk plants at UCC
Popular BBC TV science presenter and botanist James Wong is to deliver a free, public talk at University College Cork...
Rural Life
And may all your Christmases be green and yellow
If you’re already dreaming of a white Christmas, why not inject a bit of colour with John Deere’s latest seasonal...
Rural Life
Research finds special wildlife scheme beats organic at boosting birds
The View from the UK: Threatened farmland birds are likely to survive the winter better on conventional farms with specially...
Rural Life
Are you sandwiched to your desk?
A third of Irish workers eat lunch at their desk while 17 per cent choose to eat out at serviced...
Rural Life
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
COMMENT: Despite all the talk of global warming, Ireland, over recent years, has endured a number of the coldest and...
