Search Results for 'farmer'

Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett, has launched the Department’s annual Forest Statistics Report for 2023, which shows that forestry continues to grow throughout Ireland.

What was a green field site only a few weeks ago is now being transformed into a tented village and all preparations underway as the Tullamore Show and FBD National Livestock Show fast approaches.

The Galway hurling community and parish of Ballaun is in mourning for local legend Jimmy Cooney who passed away this week.

Rural towns and villages within County Westmeath and the Midlands region are being encouraged to make submissions for funding from the 2023 Town and Village Renewal Scheme which was recently launched by the Government.

Cong Food Village Festival is back, and it’s bigger and better than ever. This year’s festival will showcase the best produce and creative crafts that the west has to offer, all thanks to our sponsors and biggest supporters Ashford Castle Estate, and our charity partner Daisy Lodge in Cong.

DNG Martin O’Connor Land Sales conducted its monthly online property auction for lands on Thursday May 11. There were two plots of land on offer on the day with the agent achieving phenomenal results for its vendors.

It was a sort of homecoming for Galway-native writer Michelle McDonagh last week as she savoured the atmosphere of Cuirt the week in which her debut novel was launched in her native city.

The brutal killing of the Joyce family, the subsequent round up of the 10 accused, their trial and the sentencing of three men to hang, while the rest pleaded guilty and faced a life of penal servitude, gripped the public yet again when it had barely recovered from the Phoenix Park murders. In particular the evidence by the Cappanacrehas, and by Philbin and Casey understandably caused deadly resentment in Connemara, which still finds an echo today.

Mayo TD Michael Ring has welcomed the announcement from the Department of Agriculture of the opening of the €8 million National Liming Programme, stating that under the scheme, farmers can avail of a €16/tonne subvention to support the spreading of lime and applications can be made up to 20th April 2023.

The Maamtrasna Murders happened at a time of deep unrest in Ireland. Three years previously, the most effective protest against the insidious landlord domination of the vast majority of the Irish people found expression in the Land League. It was established on October 21 1879, in the Imperial Hotel, Castlebar, by a former Fenian prisoner Michael Davitt. In a sweeping revolutionary statement, the League proclaimed the right of every tenant farmer to own the land he worked on. Because of the abuses heaped on tenants by some landlords, it had an immediate impact.