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A young sheep farmer from Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, has been announced as the winner of Ulster Wool’s new Training and Development Programme.

749 The unit also announced 60 charges laid between Jan. 1 and March 31, 2021, against 24 people on Tuesday. According to ALERT, there is no link between the suspects other than the nature of the offences allegedly committed against children. According to ALERT, with provincial funding ICE has doubled in size with the addition of new investigators, forensic technicians, analysts and disclosure clerks, along with new technologies and software applications. “We are prepared to travel to...

Two flights have had to be redirected to a Co Antrim airfield beside a mountain due to poor visibility since it opened last summer. A meeting of Mid and East Antrim Borough Councils planning committee has heard the flights were sent to the isolated Slemish Airfield in the Buckna area, close to the famous mountain where St Patrick is reputed to have tended sheep. On the council agenda was a planning application for the installation of lights at the runway at Buckna Road, outside Broughshane. The...

24-year-old breaks womens shearing record in 9 hours 19 January 2021 | The New Zealander has set a new women’s nine-hour lamb shearing record (Photo: Shearing Sports NZ/Facebook) A 24-year-old sheep shearer from New Zealand has shattered the womens shearing record - clipping 661 lambs in nine hours. Megan Whitehead sheared the 34-36kg lambs at an average of just 49 seconds each, according to Shearing Sports NZ, the governing body for competitions. The record was broken on Wednesday 13 Janua...

For seven months she swore off caffeine, alcohol, bread and sugar and went to the gym six nights a week, all the while holding down a fulltime shearing job. She dropped from 68kg to 60kg, building more muscle on her lean frame. “I am the fittest I have ever been.” That said, she was “struggling a bit” in the last run on Thursday, with the lambs not always compliant. “I had to counsel myself mentally and I had Dad there keeping me positive ... because if one kicks, and you are losi...

Press Release – Shearing Sports New Zealand Megan Whitehead mid-way during her shearing record, with father and clockwatcher Quentin Whitehead looking on from the next pen. Photo / Supplied. A sprightly Southland shearer has today smashed a womens world record by clipping 662 lambs in nine Megan Whitehead mid-way during her shearing record, with father and clockwatcher Quentin Whitehead looking on from the next pen. Photo / Supplied. A sprightly Southland shearer has today smashed a women’s...