Weather forecast

Friday is forecast to start cloudy and breezy with outbreaks of rain and drizzle. Met Éireann has said that the rain and drizzle will become confined to western and northern areas in the afternoon with good spells of sunshine developing in the south and east.

Top temperatures will range between 12-15° in fresh to strong and gusty south to southeast winds but becoming increasing windy by evening time in the southwest.

In the news

  • The Irish Farmers Journal has obtained documents which show the UK will open the floodgates to Brazilian beef in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
  • Rushes from Irish farms have been converted to biochar worth €1,750/t on world markets.
  • A veterinary practice in Donegal has an out of hours call out fee of €500 which it says is due to a shortage of vets.
  • Farmers have registered 270,000 suckler cows with the Department of Agriculture under the Beef Environmental Efficiency Pilot (BEEP) scheme.
  • Farm organisations have called for farm payments to be maintained at their current levels and schemes such as GLAS to be extended if the rollout of the next CAP is delayed.
  • Coming up this Friday

  • The weather for the weekend ahead.
  • The Big Dealer.