N.Ireland
Primary science fair calls for NI country schools and farm kids
Ireland’s biggest science fair is doubling its capacity in its second year in Belfast, bringing over 1,500 pupils together to...
Country Living
Rural Life
Think you have a fit family? You could win €15,000
RTE is now searching the country to find the fittest, fastest, strongest families to enter one of Ireland’s most extreme...
Rural Life
Rural people less confident in the economy
Rural people have less confidence in the economy than their urban counterparts, according to a recent survey by according to the...
National Ploughing Championships
Rural retail strategy launched at Ploughing
Retail Excellence Ireland (REI) launched a strategy for rural retailing at this week’s National Ploughing Championships. The document has been...
N.Ireland
Minimum wage increase for agricultural workers announced in Northern Ireland
The ‘Grade 1 Minimum Rate’ of wages for local agricultural workers has been increased, with effect from October 1, 2014....
Rural Life
Google 'street view' brings Co. Clare scenery to millions
Google has just launched the first Irish collection from the ‘Trekker Loan Programme’ with scenes from some of the most...
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...
Government
Recognising rural women
The Rural Development Programme (RDP) has provided women with an opportunity to continue to play an active and valuable role...
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...
