With Dr Catherine Keena, Teagasc Countryside Management Specialist
Bird’s foot trefoil: Look out for bird’s foot trefoils with clusters of bright yellow pea like flowers, tinged with red or orange with irregular petals. They are positive indicator plants on the ACRES grassland and peatland scorecard, meaning that fields score higher and farmers get more money where present.
Bird’s foot trefoil likes quite dry habitats. It has solid stems and three to six flowers in a cluster. Greater bird’s foot trefoil likes damper habitats. It has hollow stems and five to ten flowers in a cluster. As foodplant for dingy skipper and common blue butterflies and very important for bees, bird’s foot trefoil nó crobh éin corraigh is part of our native Irish biodiversity.
Culture Night 2023 in Carlow. / Micheal O'Rourke
It’s still not too late to register your interest in participating in Culture Night 2024.
Culture Night is the annual all-island celebration of culture in Ireland and returns this year on Friday, 20 September.
Across the island of Ireland, Culture Night is the one night each September where people show up for a collective experience of discovery and exploration of the arts. From villages to towns and cities coast to coast, Culture Night celebrates the growing eclectic diversity of arts, culture and creativity right across the country. In 2023, 1.2 million people joined in.
Culture Night Programmers are particularly interested in cultural events and activities that are curated by and for youth (18 to 24) audiences and which promote diversity and inclusion.
To register your interest visit: culturenight.ie/get-involved
Glenn Gibson is a self-taught wire sculpture artist who teaches wire sculpture all over Ireland.
In this week’s Meet the Maker, Grace Hanna spoke to self-taught wire sculpture artist Glenn Gibson who teaches wire sculpture all over Ireland. Glenn says: ‘The first person you need to convince that you are an artist is yourself, no one else will believe it until you do first.”
While my dear, long-suffering husband becomes increasingly obsessed with artificial intelligence and smart technology, I am finding quiet moments in my polytunnel, trying to discern whether the seeds I tried to save last year will grow. While my kids have their faces stuck to their screens, I am reading ancient cookery books to learn how to make gorse flower wine (and will it taste nice, do you think?) Desperate Farmwife
The HSE estimates that up to 400 people are infected with Lyme disease each year in Ireland but a figure as high as 2,500 has also been suggested in medical circles
Cillian McCarthy from Lixnaw, Co Kerry taking a break from his First Communion celebrations last Saturday. \ Submitted by Kathryn McCarthy
The House of Glass From Poems and Prose from Beneath the Reek By Jonathan Roth
Some say she is like a cage
To others a prison,
For me the glasshouse
Is my life prisim.
We are silent partners
With a common goal,
To grow plant life
And soothe my soul.
Like me, she has her needs
Water here and harrow weeds,
Seeds to sow and pricking out
Under all the swooping Swallow.
Time has no currency in this house
No clock and no one near,
Lassie looks on and wags her tail
Mobile off and nothing to fear.
But something is wrong
I feel the pain,
My back is aching
Too much digging again.
Time to go
It’s hard to leave
So many plants
So many leaves.
Read more
Meet the Makers: sister duo Eadaoin and Catherine
Katherine O'Leary: ‘I first met my mother-in-law Lil, 46 years ago’
With Dr Catherine Keena, Teagasc Countryside Management Specialist
Bird’s foot trefoil: Look out for bird’s foot trefoils with clusters of bright yellow pea like flowers, tinged with red or orange with irregular petals. They are positive indicator plants on the ACRES grassland and peatland scorecard, meaning that fields score higher and farmers get more money where present.
Bird’s foot trefoil likes quite dry habitats. It has solid stems and three to six flowers in a cluster. Greater bird’s foot trefoil likes damper habitats. It has hollow stems and five to ten flowers in a cluster. As foodplant for dingy skipper and common blue butterflies and very important for bees, bird’s foot trefoil nó crobh éin corraigh is part of our native Irish biodiversity.
Culture Night 2023 in Carlow. / Micheal O'Rourke
It’s still not too late to register your interest in participating in Culture Night 2024.
Culture Night is the annual all-island celebration of culture in Ireland and returns this year on Friday, 20 September.
Across the island of Ireland, Culture Night is the one night each September where people show up for a collective experience of discovery and exploration of the arts. From villages to towns and cities coast to coast, Culture Night celebrates the growing eclectic diversity of arts, culture and creativity right across the country. In 2023, 1.2 million people joined in.
Culture Night Programmers are particularly interested in cultural events and activities that are curated by and for youth (18 to 24) audiences and which promote diversity and inclusion.
To register your interest visit: culturenight.ie/get-involved
Glenn Gibson is a self-taught wire sculpture artist who teaches wire sculpture all over Ireland.
In this week’s Meet the Maker, Grace Hanna spoke to self-taught wire sculpture artist Glenn Gibson who teaches wire sculpture all over Ireland. Glenn says: ‘The first person you need to convince that you are an artist is yourself, no one else will believe it until you do first.”
While my dear, long-suffering husband becomes increasingly obsessed with artificial intelligence and smart technology, I am finding quiet moments in my polytunnel, trying to discern whether the seeds I tried to save last year will grow. While my kids have their faces stuck to their screens, I am reading ancient cookery books to learn how to make gorse flower wine (and will it taste nice, do you think?) Desperate Farmwife
The HSE estimates that up to 400 people are infected with Lyme disease each year in Ireland but a figure as high as 2,500 has also been suggested in medical circles
Cillian McCarthy from Lixnaw, Co Kerry taking a break from his First Communion celebrations last Saturday. \ Submitted by Kathryn McCarthy
The House of Glass From Poems and Prose from Beneath the Reek By Jonathan Roth
Some say she is like a cage
To others a prison,
For me the glasshouse
Is my life prisim.
We are silent partners
With a common goal,
To grow plant life
And soothe my soul.
Like me, she has her needs
Water here and harrow weeds,
Seeds to sow and pricking out
Under all the swooping Swallow.
Time has no currency in this house
No clock and no one near,
Lassie looks on and wags her tail
Mobile off and nothing to fear.
But something is wrong
I feel the pain,
My back is aching
Too much digging again.
Time to go
It’s hard to leave
So many plants
So many leaves.
Read more
Meet the Makers: sister duo Eadaoin and Catherine
Katherine O'Leary: ‘I first met my mother-in-law Lil, 46 years ago’
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