Rural Life

This Mayo woman spent €21,000 restoring a 100-year old granary on her farm, it helped save two donkeys from Storm Éowyn
Why this Roscommon farmer is committed to preserving the Curlew
Clare farmers band together to fend off trespassing hare-hunting gangs
Snow starts to thaw in Kerry, but caution advised as some areas remain treacherous

Paul Williams: 20 years on from Padraig Nally – is Rural Ireland still being plagued by crime?
Kerry farmers help HSE deliver essential medical supplies and personnel through heavy snow
Safety urged as freezing conditions to last until Thursday
Roscommon family's appeal for their twins, after their ‘farming mad’ son loses his battle with Duchenne muscular dystrophy
‘My children have no interest in farming and I wouldn’t blame them’ – agriculture in danger amid reality of dwindling younger workforce
Behind the scenes of a vet's Christmas Eve: Calving, chaos, and cleaning up dog vomit
Without a physically and mentally fit farmer, the entire operation falters – why nothing is more important than your own health and wellbeing
Angus Woods: Leaning into the lambing pen, my back gave out...I’ve done one thing to help it that every farmer should do
Why farmers can no longer afford to look down on their labourers
Dieback is killing our ash trees – and it will start killing us unless we act fast

Rural Life

This Mayo woman spent €21,000 restoring a 100-year old granary on her farm, it helped save two donkeys from Storm Éowyn

Why this Roscommon farmer is committed to preserving the Curlew

Clare farmers band together to fend off trespassing hare-hunting gangs

Snow starts to thaw in Kerry, but caution advised as some areas remain treacherous

Paul Williams: 20 years on from Padraig Nally – is Rural Ireland still being plagued by crime?

Kerry farmers help HSE deliver essential medical supplies and personnel through heavy snow

Safety urged as freezing conditions to last until Thursday

Roscommon family's appeal for their twins, after their ‘farming mad’ son loses his battle with Duchenne muscular dystrophy

‘My children have no interest in farming and I wouldn’t blame them’ – agriculture in danger amid reality of dwindling younger workforce

Behind the scenes of a vet's Christmas Eve: Calving, chaos, and cleaning up dog vomit

Without a physically and mentally fit farmer, the entire operation falters – why nothing is more important than your own health and wellbeing

Angus Woods: Leaning into the lambing pen, my back gave out...I’ve done one thing to help it that every farmer should do

Why farmers can no longer afford to look down on their labourers

Dieback is killing our ash trees – and it will start killing us unless we act fast

€30,000 heifers, the mart on TV in the pubs and packed hotels: Why the Carrick Winter Fair is a Mecca for beef farmers

Struggling with succession? Here’s some way to make your farm more attractive to the next generation

Fianna Fáil pledges to let sons and daughters of farmers build one-off homes on their own farmland

‘Once the farmers go, the food goes’: Industry experts reveal fears for future of sector in NI

Jim O’Brien: Jon Kenny chronicled the lives of Rural Ireland through the prism of hilarity

Gillian O’Sullivan: Ooof... how one disaster after another made this the most costly week of my life

Angus Woods: Why it’s worth thinking about outsourcing your farm admin

‘It’s never too late to learn’ – farmer on going back to college and getting a degree 37 years after his Leaving Cert

‘I never hunted for pleasure – I hunt for the table or I hunt to sell’

Landowners advised to protect derelict sites as new case shows they are no longer a sure bet for planning

Planning permission overturned for four ‘significant’ glamping pods in Kerry

‘I don’t live on a farm, and I didn’t think cleaning cow dung out of a shed would be fun, but it is. I recommend it to everyone’

Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Farm dates, pre-nups and free labour – your guide to dating a farmer, sector by sector

Probe launched as it emerges peat extraction continued on Bord na Móna lands after firm ended production

How five family farms became the face of a premium Irish cream liqueur

Gort locals stepping up opposition to biogas plant at centre of ‘cow-dung’ case

‘He was never the same man. It shattered his peace of mind’ – 20 years after Padraig Nally shot dead trespasser at his home, ripples from case are still felt

What’s in a name: how family surnames still hold immense power in keeping ‘the land’ firmly in the hands of men

Tips for drying off: Think about selective dry cow therapy, get your free vet consultation and start saving money

Ageing and succession: ‘Us older farmers need to wake up and hand over to the younger people before it’s too late’

How this couple built a beach resort on a farm in landlocked Laois

‘I saw them in elephant poo and thought that’s exactly what we need’ – why this Laois farmer insists dung beetles are the key to soil health and parasite control

National Ploughing Championships 2024: everything to expect from Ireland’s fittest farmer to local food and fashion

Is it worth butchering your own lamb for the freezer?

We must find better ways to incentivise farmers to help nature

Angus Woods: Bad manners, big cars and atrocious reversing skills are making our roads a nightmare at harvest time

Auto advice: What safety precautions do I need to take when driving on rural roads

Jim O’Brien: Edna O’Brien fearlessly cleared a path to a better life for us in Ireland

This Working Life: ‘I love my work, I love my team – and I know we’ll never go out of business’

CAO 2024: ‘I used a PLC course to get into Ag Science in UCD the following year’

Study aims to highlight farm carer needs in West Cork

From 9-to-5 Dub to farm wife: ‘I realised early on that if I wanted to see my husband, I’d have to go out into the farm with him’

US farmers who say yes to solar power face neighbours' wrath

‘I went speed-dating in the forests of rural Ireland – and it has given me a good reason to delete Tinder’

Notes From Sheepland review: An artistic take on the pressures and pleasures of farming

Wild Atlantic woe – how tourist traffic is making life a misery for farmers near the Cliffs of Moher

‘How much for a fox’s tail and a magpie’s head?’ Remembering Ireland’s vermin control schemes and the chancers who played the system for cash

Cab slagging: What is the TikTok tractor trend all about?

Jim O’Brien: From Drowsy Maggie to Willie Clancy — why the delight and devil-may-care of Irish music is a tonic for the soul

We should all point out each other’s farm safety flaws – it’s better to feel uncomfortable for a minute than live with regret for ever

‘It was just by pure luck that we came across it’: Donegal farmer unearths ancient bog butter

Gillian O’Sullivan: Make sure you secure your farm’s future – succession planning has never been more vital

How road issues set this West Cork farmer on the path to becoming an undertaker and a local politician

‘I used to think I was the only gay in the village’ – how a ‘queer shed’ is bringing LGBTQ+ people together in rural Ireland

‘My main concern is that every farm Coolmore take over, they take all the ditches out’

Blooming wonderful event showcases the quality of Ireland’s dairy produce

‘I lived in Australia for a year but I chose to come back to work with my dad on our Tipperary farm’

Jim O’Brien: Why do we drive ourselves mad trying to impose order on nature in our gardens?

‘They treat us like we are doing something wrong and they’re here to catch us out’

Battle lines drawn as locals and gliders take on Carlow wind farm

Jim O’Brien: Let’s delight in the darling buds of May and the new season of plenty

Meet the regenerative farmer who is ‘all about letting the animals live naturally, not pushing them beyond what nature intended’

Kaleb Cooper: ‘The failure to support farmers will lead to England being at war with itself’

Lack of mental health support in rural Ireland, study finds

‘The Old Irish Goat is our living, breathing heritage – how could we let them die out or be hunted for sport?’

Jim O’Brien: How getting my free travel card made me feel like War and Peace nobility

Eamon O’Connell: Buying a bull is a big investment that can easily go wrong – here’s how to get it right

Holy wells and rag trees: ‘Whether it’s the water or the peace, there is something magic about this place’

Ancient oak which fell in storm to live on as casks for revived whiskey brand

‘Ours is the first milk vending machine of its kind in the country’ - This Cork couple don’t own a farm but are changing the milk scene

Great Blasket Island caretaker scheme: ‘We didn’t expect anyone to willingly come to an island with no hot water or electricity for months’

Darragh McCullough: Can home-delivered ready meals work in rural Ireland?

Eamon O’Connell: I’m haunted by Sesame Street on a difficult day at the veterinary coalface

King Charles’s farm advisor: ‘David Attenborough is wrong about livestock – it’s not the cow but the how’

Ceann Comhairle expresses concern over €100m Kildare solar farm as local group fears it ‘will result in the further loss of quality agricultural lands’