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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...
Country Living
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Lions roar for Food Appeal 2013
Tesco is supporting the Lions Club in its appeal to the Irish public to help people in need on the...
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Home, this must be the place
The View from Bord Bia: The final episode of the Great Irish Bake Off aired on TV last week, achieving an...
Agri-Business
ABP charity gala ball raises €47,000 for kidney research
More than 600 people attended and supported a charity gala ball at the Armagh City Hotel on Friday 15 November,...
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Break the silence on mental health issues – DARD
Northern Ireland’s Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Michelle O’Neill has said that the provision of a dedicated suicide prevention officer...
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The rocky road through Burren
The Burren, home to last weekend’s Winterage Weekend, has always been an immovable, rugged facet of Irish culture. Its inspiring...
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Unsettled weather set to continue
Winter 2013 is set to continue to bite hard this week, with shorter evenings and Met Eireann forecasting that the...
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Pump it Up!
15,000 attendants, including families, farmers, dancers, actors, joined some very big seasonal vegetables at the Virginia Pumpkin Festival in Cavan...
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Winter is coming
For hundreds of years, Burren farmers have marked the end of summer by herding their cattle up onto winter pastures...
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Farm studs raise thousands in charity auction
More than 1,000 people attended ‘The Farmer Wants a Wife’ in the Armagh City Hotel on Friday 11 October, to help...
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All-Ireland hedgecutters set Guinness world record
A Guinness world record was set at the All-Ireland Hedgecutting Championships in Kilkenny at the weekend for the greatest number...
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West Cork has the 'write stuff'
Four leading journalists from Germany visited West Cork this week, as guests of Tourism Ireland. The group was made up...
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The cut above the rest
“It’s not as easy as it sounds,” said Mary Ann Nolan, one of the organisers of the All-Ireland Annual Hedgecutting...
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Grassroot success
Success is hard work, simple as. Nobody knows this best than Sarah Baker of Cloughjordan House, who last weekend won...
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This week's farmer of the tweet: Fieldstown Farm
Farmers Feed Families launched a social initiative this summer to raise awareness of daily life in farms across Ireland. Each...
