Farmers are well represented among the 57 escorts who will chaperone the Roses at this year’s Rose of Tralee Festival, I see.
Andrew Corrigan from Carlow is a dairy farmer, likes hockey and is active in Macra. Colm Parke from Sligo is a dairy farmer and a qualified veterinary nurse. He is sporty and likes going to race meetings.
Then you have Donal O’Callaghan, who is a dairy farmer and also involved in Macra – and scaled farm machinery models.
Kieran Dunphy is a dairy and beef farmer from Co Waterford. While his passion is farming, “socialising and having the craic is a must too”.
Patrick Cashman is a grass and forage development manager from a dairy farm in Co Cork. I heard he recently learned to jive. Shane Foran from Co Waterford is a dairy farmer and Glanbia sales assistant.
Outside of the dairy brigade there is a host of other farmers taking part, including Wexford man Aidan McCabe, Daniel O’Connell from Co Kerry, Nicolas Corcoran from Co Tipperary, Paul Clabby from Co Roscommon and Paul Kelly is an account manager at Dairymaster in south Kilkenny.
Cork man Tim O’Shea is a farmer and a Bord Bia auditor and his fellow county man Tom O’Keeffe is working on the family pig farm in Mitchelstown, Co Cork.
Rose of Tralee escorts at escort bootcamp.
Farmers get creative as hunt for hurling final tickets intensifies
On Wednesday of last week, I came across one opportunistic Galway farmer attempting to swap some hay bales for All-Ireland hurling final tickets.
It looks like he may have started a new trend.
As I scrolled through Twitter a few days later, I came across a tweet from Limerick farmer Peter Cagney. It would appear his father is taking the hunt for tickets up a notch – by offering a selection of options in an effort to tempt someone to part with their tickets.
In exchange for two tickets to the final, he is willing to trade one of the following:
Three IBC water tanks worth €65 each.One bale of silage.One February 2019 heifer calf.As 19 August grows closer, who knows what might be on offer for tickets that seem to be harder to come by than rain in the summer of 2018?
Aggressive herring gull attacking another gull.
Seagulls stealing ham from trolleys
A number of ravenous seagulls are swooping in on full shopping trolleys leaving a supermarket in Co Galway, I heard last week.
In one case, a pound and a half of sliced ham was robbed from a shopping trolley, leaving the pusher of the trolley in shock and a farmer with no ham for a sandwich.
Another rural dweller told me that the seagulls are “massive yokes” and that they wait, watching, on the roof of the supermarket to see where they can swoop next. Mind them trolleys.
Fodder support sowing dates
I was going to make use of the newfangled fodder production incentive until I found out my proactive approach is not being rewarded.
I had a nice few days for sowing in the last week of July and got a bit of Redstart in the ground. But I can forget any payment from the Department of Agriculture. It is only supporting those who waited until 3 August to plant.
As I wandered through the trade stands at Tullamore Show on Sunday I came across one midlands farmer with a streak of Shakespeare’s Romeo in him. The young man in question was accompanied by a young lady and I was informed that they were on their first date.
By all accounts it was going well and while she was not from a farm herself, she had clearly been well advised as she was sporting a pair of Hunter boots.
The Dealer heard of a party in Wicklow lately to celebrate the grand opening of a new milking parlour.
What better way to christen a new 30-unit, double-up machine than to crack open a few bottles of bubbly?
I’m not sure whether the ship-naming custom of having a lady sponsor cut the ribbon was copied in this new tradition.
But I’m sure the cows have given it their usual christening at this stage.
Farmers are well represented among the 57 escorts who will chaperone the Roses at this year’s Rose of Tralee Festival, I see.
Andrew Corrigan from Carlow is a dairy farmer, likes hockey and is active in Macra. Colm Parke from Sligo is a dairy farmer and a qualified veterinary nurse. He is sporty and likes going to race meetings.
Then you have Donal O’Callaghan, who is a dairy farmer and also involved in Macra – and scaled farm machinery models.
Kieran Dunphy is a dairy and beef farmer from Co Waterford. While his passion is farming, “socialising and having the craic is a must too”.
Patrick Cashman is a grass and forage development manager from a dairy farm in Co Cork. I heard he recently learned to jive. Shane Foran from Co Waterford is a dairy farmer and Glanbia sales assistant.
Outside of the dairy brigade there is a host of other farmers taking part, including Wexford man Aidan McCabe, Daniel O’Connell from Co Kerry, Nicolas Corcoran from Co Tipperary, Paul Clabby from Co Roscommon and Paul Kelly is an account manager at Dairymaster in south Kilkenny.
Cork man Tim O’Shea is a farmer and a Bord Bia auditor and his fellow county man Tom O’Keeffe is working on the family pig farm in Mitchelstown, Co Cork.
Rose of Tralee escorts at escort bootcamp.
Farmers get creative as hunt for hurling final tickets intensifies
On Wednesday of last week, I came across one opportunistic Galway farmer attempting to swap some hay bales for All-Ireland hurling final tickets.
It looks like he may have started a new trend.
As I scrolled through Twitter a few days later, I came across a tweet from Limerick farmer Peter Cagney. It would appear his father is taking the hunt for tickets up a notch – by offering a selection of options in an effort to tempt someone to part with their tickets.
In exchange for two tickets to the final, he is willing to trade one of the following:
Three IBC water tanks worth €65 each.One bale of silage.One February 2019 heifer calf.As 19 August grows closer, who knows what might be on offer for tickets that seem to be harder to come by than rain in the summer of 2018?
Aggressive herring gull attacking another gull.
Seagulls stealing ham from trolleys
A number of ravenous seagulls are swooping in on full shopping trolleys leaving a supermarket in Co Galway, I heard last week.
In one case, a pound and a half of sliced ham was robbed from a shopping trolley, leaving the pusher of the trolley in shock and a farmer with no ham for a sandwich.
Another rural dweller told me that the seagulls are “massive yokes” and that they wait, watching, on the roof of the supermarket to see where they can swoop next. Mind them trolleys.
Fodder support sowing dates
I was going to make use of the newfangled fodder production incentive until I found out my proactive approach is not being rewarded.
I had a nice few days for sowing in the last week of July and got a bit of Redstart in the ground. But I can forget any payment from the Department of Agriculture. It is only supporting those who waited until 3 August to plant.
As I wandered through the trade stands at Tullamore Show on Sunday I came across one midlands farmer with a streak of Shakespeare’s Romeo in him. The young man in question was accompanied by a young lady and I was informed that they were on their first date.
By all accounts it was going well and while she was not from a farm herself, she had clearly been well advised as she was sporting a pair of Hunter boots.
The Dealer heard of a party in Wicklow lately to celebrate the grand opening of a new milking parlour.
What better way to christen a new 30-unit, double-up machine than to crack open a few bottles of bubbly?
I’m not sure whether the ship-naming custom of having a lady sponsor cut the ribbon was copied in this new tradition.
But I’m sure the cows have given it their usual christening at this stage.
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