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MEMBERS of the public are being invited to have their say on a scheme which could "kick-start" a Flintshire towns revitalisation. In 2019 the Leader reported how Buckley councillors Carol Ellis, Mike Peers and Dennis Hutchinson shared their hopes of giving the towns Old Baths on Mold Road a new lease of life. The councillors, who are also the three remaining trustees and directors of Old Buckley Baths Community Hall Ltd which owns the site, said they hoped to turn it into a multi-use comm...

February 12, 2021 10:54 am €2.2 million funding for two peatland projects has been announced by the Minister of State for land use and biodiversity Pippa Hackett. The project will be aimed at “finding better ways” to manage on-farm peat soils in the midlands. The two projects were selected following an open call under the European Innovation Partnerships Initiative (EIP) and will be funded under Ireland’s Rural Development Programme. Additional funding for a Rural Development Programme...

  Funding of €2.2m has been confirmed for two projects that will focus on finding better ways to manage on-farm drained peat soils in the midlands, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture Pippa Hackett has announced. The two projects were selected following an open call under the European Innovation Partnerships (EIP) initiative and will be funded under Ireland’s Rural Development Programme 2014-202I. The two groups selected were Wetland Surveys Ireland and Green Restoration Ir...

Applications for locally led schemes wanted for €1.25m biodiversity fund 2021-02-10

Minister Hackett launches new Farming Biodiversity Initiative Farmers, NGOs, Local Authorities, Communities all encouraged to apply Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Senator Pippa Hackett has today launched a call for new locally-led farm and community biodiversity initiatives. The €1.25 million initiative, which is under the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s Rural Development Programme, invites project applications from far...

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Blackrock Tidy Towns has had a report commissioned on the Church structure in Haggardstown Old Graveyard on the Old Golf Links Road. The report was completed by Dr Jason Bolton who is a conservation architect. Work of this nature would normally be formally presented to the community. Unfortunately, due to the current pandemic, the report can only be presented online. The report was part funded by County Louth LEADER under the 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme. The purpose of the report is ...

Wyke said it was ‘open for business’ as a consolidator via third party storage sites Wyke Farms has set up an EU-based operation in order to streamline exports to the bloc and assist rival cheesemakers in avoiding Brexit-linked disruption to EU trade. The Somerset-based supplier has set up an Irish company to continue accessing the EU and is “open for business” as a consolidator via third party storage sites in France and Germany, said MD Rich Clothier. The operation will be run from a ...

Organic Farming Scheme to re-open to new entrants The Organic Farming Scheme (OFS) will reopen to new entrants in the first week of March, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Pippa Hackett has announced. The re-opening, subject to EU Commission approval, is expected to result in an increase of up to 30% in the number of farmers farming organically in Ireland this year. The OFS is an agri-environment measure under the Department’s Rural Development Programme...