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Tipperary has seen the Independents come out on top, and the old guard of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil retain their strength in these Local Elections 2024, but there has been a drop in support for Sinn Féin, while Labour are up, taking three seats in the Premier County.

With the grass growing season fast approaching, I have started buying in the remainder of my stock for finishing off grass.

As a long-time beef producer and an admirer of the work undertaken by the research staff at Teagasc, particularly relating to dairy beef, I wasn’t going to miss the Teagasc National Beef Conference last month.

Two week ago, I sent off the last of my finished cattle to the factory, and I was relieved to see them go as I had never seen my land so wet in early November.

With nearly half of my finished cattle sold, things are beginning to look a bit better.

As the severe cutbacks in the new CAP begin to bite, perhaps the time has come for farmers to reassess the role they play in modern society.

They say timing is everything, especially in farming, but my timing appears to have deserted me this spring.

Miriam Gunn and her husband Michael milk 180 Holstein Friesian cows on their farm in Strokestown, Roscommon.

Article content Conservative members of parliamentary committees scrutinizing the WE Charity scandal have warned the Kielburger brothers — the organization’s co-founders — they could be forced to testify and potentially face legal consequences if they refuse to attend. The WE founders have declined requests to testify before two House of Commons committees. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Heres what can happen if the Kielburger brothers re...

As the old saying goes, ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune’. However, when the Beef Stakeholders meetings were set up in 2019 following the beef protests and blockades, the interests of the consumers who buy beef were apparently overlooked. It appears this oversight is now coming back to haunt the members of the Department of Agriculture’s Beef Task Force. As part of the Irish Beef Sector Agreement (September 15, 2019) 2019, it was agreed to undertake “an independent review of market...