Water quality

How this Laois derogation farmer is helping water quality

Tirlán supplier Séamus Brennan is in derogation and using the Farming for Water EIP to draw down funding to create new water quality measures on his land.

NEWS 29 December 2025

How this Laois derogation farmer is helping water quality

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Letter - concerns over Macroom biomethan plant

Letter - concerns over Macroom biomethan plant

LETTERS 24 December 2025

Ireland referred to EU court of justice over wastewater discharges

Ireland referred to EU court of justice over wastewater discharges

NEWS 12 December 2025

EU court to decide on Irish nitrates case next summer

EU court to decide on Irish nitrates case next summer

EU court to decide on Irish nitrates case next summer

NEWS 11 December 2025

Scope for new nitrates derogation after 2028

Scope for new nitrates derogation after 2028

Scope for new nitrates derogation after 2028

NEWS 10 December 2025

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No time to rest on our laurels

No time to rest on our laurels

Many people can share in the plaudits for retaining the nitrates derogation, but the work to improve water quality must be intensified even further now.

DEALER 26 November 2025

My Farming Week: Cheryl Poole, Craanford, Gorey, Co Wexford

My Farming Week: Cheryl Poole, Craanford, Gorey, Co Wexford

Wexford's Cheryl Poole wants nature and farming to go hand-in-hand on the family dairy farm.

NEWS 26 November 2025

Sixth Nitrates Action Programme published

Sixth Nitrates Action Programme published

The main change in the NAP is that all dairy farmers will be required to have increased slurry storage by 1 October 2028 on the back of changes to the volumes of slurry being produced by dairy cows.

NEWS 26 November 2025

Editorial: fresh conditions attached to derogation

Editorial: fresh conditions attached to derogation

Each of the new conditions will require close scrutiny, and the Habitats Directive assessment would still appear to be the most onerous of these.

VIEWPOINTS 26 November 2025

Over €13m in funds to remove barriers to fish migration in rivers

Over €13m in funds to remove barriers to fish migration in rivers

The Minister of State for Nature welcomed the funding as a means of helping to meet Nature Restoration Law targets for free-flowing rivers.

CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT 26 November 2025

Inside the Farmers Journal: bird flu, water quality and stolen cattle

Inside the Farmers Journal: bird flu, water quality and stolen cattle

This week, the team discusses another outbreak of bird flu, farming being unfairly blamed for water pollution, hear from a farmer whose cattle were stolen and talk to the Minister for Agriculture.

NEWS 26 November 2025

Two NI projects push on with slurry solutions

Two NI projects push on with slurry solutions

MLAs on Stormont's agriculture committee have received an update on the Sustainable Utilisation of Livestock Slurry programme.

NORTHERN IRELAND 26 November 2025

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Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

Our success in export markets depends not only on finding new buyers, but on protecting the strong and hard-fought position we occupy on the global stage.

Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

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