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Stephen Cadogan: Bridging the broadband gap fast becoming a human right

Thursday, May 26, 2016Stephen Cadogan

Of all the commitments in the programme for a partnership government, rural dwellers will reserve the biggest pinch of salt for the promise to bring next generation broadband to every house and business in the country by 2020.

Karen Walsh: Machinery joint deals can work

Thursday, May 26, 2016Karen Walsh

At the start of the New Century, the expression which was in vogue with young children at the time was “sharing is caring”.

Kieran Coughlan: Certified public accountants host farming taxation seminar

Thursday, May 26, 2016Kieran Coughlan

The Munster branch of Certified Public Accountants held a seminar focused at accounting professionals on the topic of farming taxation with a banking update on supporting volatility in agriculture which was hosted by AIB.

Cormac MacConnell: Our democracy, is now a femocracy!

Thursday, May 26, 2016Cormac MacConnell

Minister for Justice, Frances Fitzgerald with Garda Commissioner, Noirín O’Sullivan. Irish femocracy is still only getting into its stride. What is going to happen to us menfolk at all?

Oliver Moore: EU amends list of valid substances

Thursday, May 26, 2016Oliver Moore

The lists of substances which can be used in EU organic farming has been amended.

Denis Lehane: Micheál Martin — surely the cleverest man in the world

Thursday, May 26, 2016Denis Lehane

Micheál Martin is a clever man. Not only did he have the good sense to be born in Cork, but he was also the bright spark who put an end to smoking in public houses.

Stephen Cadogan: Member states should revise dairy cow owners’ subsidies

Thursday, May 19, 2016Stephen Cadogan

Irish dairy co-ops reckon the voluntary milk supply reductions given the green light by the European Commission won’t succeed — even if farmers are paid 10c per litre of milk volume reduced, as suggested last week by ICMSA.

Karen Walsh: You must always observe the farm safety Code of Practice

Thursday, May 19, 2016Karen Walsh

A person is eight times more likely to die working on a farm in Ireland than in the general working population.

Denis Lehane: Calm farmers for calm livestock

Thursday, May 19, 2016Denis Lehane

The subject of breeding is not something I frequently broach on this page, for fear of frightening away the more timid reader.

Kieran Coughlan: Don’t forget tax advice amid trauma of divorce or separation

Thursday, May 19, 2016Kieran Coughlan

The 2011 CSO census showed that 88,000 persons were divorced, and a further 116,000 were separated.

Oliver Moore: A rare ruminare to find in Ballymote

Thursday, May 19, 2016Oliver Moore

Clive Bright practices a style of animal husbandry called mob grazing on his 120-acre certified organic farm in Ballymote, Co Sligo.

Cormac MacConnell: Expect titters at antics of novice ministers

Thursday, May 19, 2016Cormac MacConnell

I will be heavily criticised by some of you for retailing this yarn, but I don’t care at all, because I enjoyed hearing it and, anyway, in Rising season, it is topical as well.

Stephen Cadogan: Restoring funding for farming and food sector key for Michael Creed

Thursday, May 12, 2016Stephen Cadogan

The election message from the countryside was heard loud and clear, and Rural Ireland was front and centre, when newly appointed Taoiseach Enda Kenny nominated the members of his government last week.

Karen Walsh: Educate your neighbours on dog dangers

Thursday, May 12, 2016Karen Walsh

Last week, I wrote about the problems farmers face, with dogs killing their sheep and lambs, and the reasonable steps that both the farmer and dog owner should take to solve this problem.

Denis Lehane: I’m dreaming of a fine summer

Thursday, May 12, 2016Denis Lehane

I spent a major part of last week on my knees praying for good weather.

Oliver Moore: Mechanics of mob grazing made easy

Thursday, May 12, 2016Oliver Moore

Organic farmer Clive Bright farms 120 acres in Sligo, where he operates an unusual grazing system.

Cormac MacConnell: Women tell revealing stories of rural Ireland

Thursday, May 12, 2016Cormac MacConnell

I will make a full and free confession at once, and get it off my chest.

Stephen Cadogan: Phil Hogan urged to keep price promise on produce margins

Thursday, May 05, 2016Stephen Cadogan

ICMSA has put pressure on the European commissioner for agriculture and rural development, Phil Hogan, to live up to his promises to level the playing pitch for farmers, versus what the dairy farmers’ organisation calls “margin-grabbing” retailers.

Kieran Coughlan: Co-op movement to the rescue as village loses shop

Thursday, May 05, 2016Kieran Coughlan

During the bank holiday weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting the picturesque village of Courtmacsherry, a medium-sized village located on the coastline between Timoleague and Clonakilty, in West Cork.

Denis Lehane: I’m the right man in the wrong place

Thursday, May 05, 2016Denis Lehane

“How is the Department of Agriculture managing to keep afloat?” farmers might well ask, with our man Coveney locked into government talks with the likes of the Healy-Rae brothers.

Cormac MacConnell: A silage pioneer who took to the skies

Thursday, May 05, 2016Cormac MacConnell

I saw Michael O’Ryanair strutting across the TV screens last week after one of his nags won another big race whilst his planes were filling the skies overhead and, quite frankly, I was green with envy for a while.

Irish people still love their breakfast

Monday, May 02, 2016

ONE of the first things that the late developer John Murphy did on any new construction site in London was to set up a canteen that served the best breakfast his workers could have.

Suckler beef producers could lose €64m in deal, eco group warns

Monday, May 02, 2016 Oliver Moore

Irish suckler beef producers could be face up to €64m in lost imports following a TTIP deal, a Friends of the Earth Europe report has warned.

IFA seeks to reduce dairy farmers' exposure to market risks

Monday, May 02, 2016 Sean O’Leary, IFA dairy chairman

The pressure on the incomes of dairy farmers shows co-ops rely too much on farmers to bear too much of the risk attached to price volatility.

Stephen Cadogan: Omens good for afforestation but farmers think otherwise

Thursday, April 28, 2016Stephen Cadogan

It should be a good year for afforestation, but farmers don’t think so.

Karen Walsh: CPO is further complicated if a land holding is fragmented

Thursday, April 28, 2016Karen Walsh

More and more landowners will have to come to terms with compulsory purchase orders (CPOs), as new roads, gas pipelines and ESB cables are planned throughout the country.

Oliver Moore: Brexit would have a massive impact

Thursday, April 28, 2016Oliver Moore

With a total organic retail market of almost £2bn (€2.5bn), and with the UK still the major market for Irish organic food, the potential impact of a Brexit on the Irish organic sector is large.

Denis Lehane: To Westmeath of the pastures in search of a bull

Thursday, April 28, 2016Denis Lehane

Twas a month ago now that I first got the notion,
Of giving two heifers a kind of promotion.

Cormac MacConnell: Dublin wins hands down in game of life

Thursday, April 28, 2016Cormac MacConnell

It is ironic that the city of Dublin is guarded by an alleged mad cow. for those approaching the capital from the South and Mid West.

Seafood trail brings a new dimension to the Wild Atlantic Way

Monday, April 25, 2016

Taste the Atlantic is a seafood journey that stretches south from Erris in Co Mayo to Connemara and on to Galway Bay.