In the news

  • The boards of Lakelands and Glanbia have held their base milk price but cut their support payments.
  • Plans to give each country more flexibility in delivering EU farm supports risks creating more complexity, a number of MEPs have said.
  • A status yellow weather warning is in place for Connacht, Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal and Clare.
  • Walsh Fellow PhD student and Clare hurler Shane O’Donnell was one of the 37 Fulbright Irish awardees for 2018-2019 and will become part of a team of researchers in Harvard University.
  • Farmers are being asked to take care when spreading slurry or making silage this year by Inland Fisheries Ireland after a suspect silage pollution incident in Claremorris last week.

    • Photo of the day

    The farm of dairy farmer Tony Francis in Ballyvaughan, Co Clare \ Philip Doyle

    The farm of dairy farmer Tony Francis in Ballyvaughan, Co Clare. \ Philip Doyle.