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Climate and environment
'GAEC 2 is a designation with a different name'
Amy Forde
Classifying land as GAEC 2 is a designation under a different name, a leading west Clare dairy farmer has said.
14 May 2025 Climate and environment
Safeguards to be built into rewetting law
Senior inspector Michael Maloney said that the impact of rewetting one parcel of land on a neighbouring farmer’s land has yet to be worked out.
13 May 2025 News
Young Stock Podcast: contracting in Banner County and tricky transmissions
On this week's episode, Kilkenny man Cathal Nolan speaks about his background, studies, travel abroad and his current day-to-day involvement in the family-run contracting business.
Cork and Clare on an Easter hunt for glory
All-Ireland Champions go head-to-head with the league winners as the Munster Senior Hurling Championship kicks off with an intense clash.
16 April 2025 Sport
41.5ac for sale on Finavarra Bay in Co Clare guided at €365,000
The farm in a scenic area, near to Kinvara and to Ballyvaughan. It has road frontage.
16 April 2025 Property
Clare Macra to host association's annual general meeting
The event will include reports and discussion of motions and recommendations as well as the handover to the newly elected presidential team.
14 April 2025 News
Taste Tradition: ‘where are the Pouldoody oysters?’
Award-winning food journalist, Robb Walsh, left Texas for Co Clare and discovered a vibrant food community, writes Janine Kennedy.
9 April 2025 News
Cliffs of Moher farmers vow to fight threat of CPOs
Farmers along the Cliffs of Moher Coastal Walk opened up their land to the public in good faith, but are now potentially facing CPOs due to the trail’s popularity. Anne O’Donoghue reports
9 April 2025 Feature
Man previously guilty of cattle theft assaulted sister in row over land
In the witness box, Mr O’Brien (50) of Prospect House, Scarriff, admitted to shoving his sister into a roadside whitethorn bush that cut her ear and her arm. Gordon Deegan reports.
4 April 2025 News
CPOs at Cliffs of Moher ‘an attempt to intimidate and bully’ – IFA
The association was strongly objecting to draft report recommendations that Clare County Council would use such powers as an option to confiscate private land from farmers on the famous coastal walk.
1 April 2025 News
Ideal farm for producing good, pricey weanlings
The land is laid out in one block and is described as good fattening ground, comprising 65ac.
26 March 2025 Property
Farmers being warned of low-flying aircraft over Kerry and Clare
The Minister for the Environment said the survey will assist State agencies in understating areas including agricultural productivity and peatlands.
20 March 2025 News