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SHARING OPTIONS: This aged Parthenaise bullock was born March 2013, weighed 920kg and sold for €2,040 (€2.22/kg). Last Friday, the Irish Farmers Journal was in Tullow Mart for its weekly general cattle sale, which was one of the last fully online sales before bidders returned ringside on Monday. Speaking after the sale, Tullow manager Eric Driver said: “We had a good lively trade this week. It’s a final farewell to fully online bidding and that br...

The hustle and bustle of Grafton Street returns as retailer’s staff ‘thrilled’ to be back

Watch: €6,000 price tag tops Carrick Angus sale 2021-05-15

Hundreds of Australian broadband technicians stop work Hundreds of Australian broadband technicians have walked off the job in recent days in protest over low pay, “pyramid” contracting and an unworkable job scheduling platform. The Communications Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) has staged a series of protests in an effort to divert the anger of workers behind the corporatised unions and the Labor Party in the lead-up to the next federal election. The aim is to prevent a broader moveme...

More than 600 technicians employed by the NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, will walk off the job on Wednesd...

Tullamore Show confirms cancellation 2021-05-12

05 May 2021 : Nathan Griffin Writer John Morton Dead Still creator and writer John Morton has won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for his work on Deadpan Pictures hit Acorn TV and RTÉ comedy-drama series. “Episode 1, Photochemistry” of Dead Still, written by John Morton was awarded the Best Television Episode Teleplay on the night with winners for the 2021 Edgars being announced virtually over zoom. Talking to IFTN about the award, Morton said:  “Its a tre...

Gardaí warn tractor drivers to steer clear of TikTok Gardaí in Bruff, Co Limerick, and the Farm Contractors of Ireland are warning young tractor drivers in particular not to use TikTok or other forms of social media while driving tractors this summer. Irish Limousin premier Shane Murphy catches up with newly appointed Irish Limousin CEO Ronan Murphy following the society premier sale on Monday. Classification of land As part of a study, a new map has classified farmland across the country. Am...

NBN Co has just announced 900,000 new locations that will get fibre upgrades just one day after hundreds of technicians walked off the job.

iTWire Monday, 03 May 2021 20:47 NBN technicians walk off job as 100+ car convoy headed to NBN Co Sydney head office Shares With the Communications Workers Union (CWU) calling for a National Senate Inquiry into what it calls the "shambolic NBN network", over 100 subcontractors arrived outside the NBN Co North Sydney office to "protest against the NBN Cos shambolic management and pyramid contracting scheme thats leaving workers struggling to make ends meet." The CWU is the Communi...