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Uncertain autumn looming for cattle finishers

WESTERN cattle finishers are facing into an uncertain autumn with the country’s meat plants continuing to exert downw...

Factories urged to look at long-term picture

THE ongoing spell of wet weather through the late summer period has helped to create ‘the perfect storm’ in terms of ...

Call for a deer cull in parts of South Galway

THERE have been calls this week for an effective deer culling programme to be put in place across parts of South Galw...

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Athenry was the wettest place in Ireland as the rains poured down

IT won’t come as a surprise to anyone but we’ve just endured our wettest ever July in Galway since records began. And Athenry – out of the 25 Me...

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A huge turnout for Galway Wool sale and art exhibition

THERE was a huge turnout for last weekend’s Galway Wool Meitheal sale and exhibition    of produce in the Athenry Mart. A feature of this year’s...

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Callows flooding nightmare continues

HUNDREDS of farmers in the Shannon Callows area – taking in parts of Galway, Offaly, Westmeath and Roscommon – are facing into an animal feed crisi...

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Rewetting threat has not gone away: TD

INDEPENDENT Roscommon-Galway TD, Michael Fitzmaurice, has this week warned farmers and their representative organisations, that they are far from ‘...

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Galway Wool will fetch €2.50/kg at Athenry Meitheal

QUALITY sells – and at a premium price too – as the Galway Wool Co-op has proven over recent years at its annual ‘Meitheal’ in Athenry Mart. This ...

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Breaking down barriers

For farmers in the uplands of Connemara, the isolated nature and rugged terrain of most of the farmland in the region, where mobile phone coverage ...


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