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Despite always being outgoing Elizabeth suddenly found it difficult to leave her home or be social.

Despite always being outgoing Elizabeth suddenly found it difficult to leave her home or be social.

Sustainable Farm Insights: producing low-carbon beef in Co Antrim 2022-01-12

BILLY O’Kane was a business leader whose eye for innovation helped turn the family poultry firm in Ballymena into an international success story.

How a Northern Irish suckler farmer is reducing costs >More in Sam Chesney © Steffan Hill Sky-high farm input prices and rising rents have prompted Sam Chesney to re-evaluate his business and take a slight change in tack, in an attempt to improve suckler-cow margins. This spring, he is introducing Stabiliser genetics into his continental beef herd to reduce feed costs and improve fat cover of finished progeny. He is also planting a furt...

An appreciation to Derry man James E. Doherty - His like will not be seen again A friend pays tribute to a well-known local man A Sean Dolans team from the late 1950s. Reporter: ); We were Lone Moor Road neighbours, schoolmates and this friendship continued to adulthood. He was one of our gang when our base was around Hippsleys shop in old Bishop Street opposite the jail. The best of craic, flour fights on the Walls, music, fingers in the sweety jars and innocent liaisons. JED was always there...