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‘I’ve lost my teen daughter to her smartphone’
Jacqueline Hogge
Caving in to demands for a smartphone by her 12-year-old daughter leaves one concerned mother asking Miriam's advice on how to restore some boundaries with technology.
9 October 2024 News
Kildare farmer tracks down egg and potato thieves
Norman Dunne along with his father, Michael, run a 400ac tillage farm in Co Kildare and have been running an ‘honesty box’ style system outside their farm to sell potatoes and eggs.
9 October 2024 Breeding
Helen Sharp: respect your elders
This week, Helen Sharp muses over the fashion of breeding, the treatment of older mares and some useful equine events
World News Day: choosing truth is essential for farmers
Irish Farmers Journal editor Jack Kennedy writes about World News Day and why truth matters.
28 September 2024 Editorial
NewsBrands Ireland urges Government to support journalism
Irish news publishers join hundreds of global news organisations in ‘Choose Truth’ campaign.
28 September 2024 News
Fraudsters targeting farmers with ‘purchase scams’ for farm machinery
That’s the message coming from the financial fraud awareness team in the Bank of Ireland tent at the National Ploughing Championships.
17 September 2024 News
Making schools a smartphone free zone
A whole school ban on smartphones has been introduced in a Co Wexford primary school in response to mounting evidence of the harmful effects of social media on young children, writes Jacqueline Hogge.
31 July 2024 Features
IFJ Junior: capturing the countryside
Young photographer Harry Ryan is a regular sight out and about capturing rural scenes and farmers working on the land.
26 June 2024 l2
Gorman resignation hoax email
The IFA president was the victim of a hoax email he had resigned over the adoption of the Nature Restoration Law, which might have alerted anyone who knows him that it was bogus
19 June 2024 Dealer
Watch: British police ram cow in ‘distressing’ video
A British police investigation is under way after members of its Surrey force rammed an animal that was running loose in a town.
16 June 2024 News
John Deere's updated 6M breaks cover
Images have emerged online of a revamped 105hp to 275hp, 17 model 6M tractor series from John Deere. Gary Abbott reports on what is known so far, ahead of its public launch later this month.
12 June 2024 News
Aberdeen Angus YDP finals come to Ireland
This year's finals will take place in Mid-Tipp Mart, Thurles, on Saturday 28 September and the competition is open to all young breeders.
1 May 2024 Pedigree