Farming Courts News Today

The building materials firm Grafton Group has secured a High Court order overturning permission for a Co Offaly facility that would convert silage, manure and chicken litter into biogas.

The State’s nitrates regulation plan, which aims to protect waters from agricultural pollution, breaches environmental laws and should be quashed, the High Court has been told.

Two Co Leitrim turf cutters will argue in the Supreme Court that they should not be prosecuted under habitats protection legislation for allegedly refusing to allow wildlife officers to access their bogland.

A young man who signed up in this country to work as a seasonal farm worker in New Zealand suffered catastrophic injuries when his arm was pulled into a combine harvester, the High Court heard.

The owners of Barne Estate, a 751-acre farm and mansion, are to ask the High Court to throw out a lawsuit being taken against them by bloodstock billionaire John Magnier.

A senior barrister is seeking to be allowed back on the 170-acre farm where he is accused of murdering a father-of-four in a fatal shooting last year, with an agricultural consultant telling the High Court that there would be "serious welfare issues" for livestock if the defendant remains excluded.

A garda, who was injured as protesting farmers rushed the official car of EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen during a State Visit at Government Buildings in January 2020, has settled, for an undisclosed sum, a €60,000 damages claim against the Minister for Public Expenditure.

A sheep farmer who faked letters and will documents from a dead landowner in an attempt to inherit his £1.1 million estate faces jail after being found guilty of fraud.

A senior inspector at the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has changed his plea at the last minute in a case of illegally possessing prescription-only veterinary medicines.

A farmer has been fined €2,000 and banned from driving for a year after the trailer he was towing came loose, overtook the tractor and collided with an oncoming car, seriously injuring the driver.