Rural Life
Timber awards galore!
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with responsibility for Forestry, Tom Hayes TD, presented...
Country Living
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Regressions in Credit Unions
‘Regressions’ in credit unions across Ireland are to be addressed by the Department of Finance this year with a new...
Agri-Business
No impact from salmon farming on wild stocks, IFA claims
On the publication of a peer-reviewed scientific paper claiming a lack of evidence of negative impacts on wild salmon stocks...
Rural Life
Best Kept Town winners, Castlecoote scoops first prize
UPDATE: Castlecoote, Co Roscommon is the overall winner of Ireland’s Best Kept Town competition 2013. The results were announced this...
Rural Life
The Farm has highest rate of occupational death
The principal driver of good health and safety management on farms is taking ongoing preventative action. This was the message...
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Prof Walls steals the Virginia Show
Prof Patrick Wall, associate professor of public health in University College Dublin’s School of Public Health and Population Sciences, and...
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Organic summer farm walks
UPDATE: A nationwide series of national organic farming open days will take place this summer. Teagasc, the Department of Agriculture,...
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Online payments threaten rural post offices
An Post has once again won the tender for social welfare payment services from 2014, it was announced this morning....
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Bog snorkelling as clear as mud
Images of Monaghan and Ireland will be seen by more than 2.8 million people across Canada later this year, after...
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Earley was a show-stopper at Kildare
The Kildare County Show on Sunday the 16th of June did not disappoint. The weather was a worry in the...
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Tweeting farmers take the lead
Farmers Feed Families launched the first of its initiatives entitled Tweeting Farmers on the 6 June in Old Farm, Lorrha, Co...
Other
ICA carer up for Mom of the Year
“You are a mother you just get on with it.” These are the wise words of full-time carer and mother...
Other
Social media key for ICA
Social media and twitter are key to the future of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA), its recent AGM in Portlaoise...
Other
ICA member celebrates her 103rd birthday
Lucy Carty, an Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA) member from Bishopstown Cork celebrated her 103rd birthday recently. She celebrated this occasion...
Rural Life
Social farming to help people in need
Social farming has the potential to offer solutions to public service provision in rural areas and to re-connect farmers with...
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Heavy metal
Many people think that blacksmiths and metal workers no longer exist in Ireland and that they have to accept poor...
Agri-Business
Strawberry surge
There has been a huge surge in strawberry sales the past year, according to a Kantar survey just out. The...
Rural Life
Woodturners guild that turns heads
The Irish Woodturners Guild is one of the oldest guilds of its type in the world. It has more than...
