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Michael Creed: More paid out due to online efficiency.
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ANC payments arrive for 12,000 Galway farmers

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ANC or ‘headage’ monies are arriving this week to about 12,000 Co. Galway farmers this week – the payments normally coincide with the National...
Michael Fitzmaurice: River restrictions on the way?
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Ban on animal access to rivers on way

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THE days of farmers being able to let their cattle drink from rivers and streams bordering or running through their lands could be coming...
Country Living with Francis Farragher There is always something mildly melancholic about the second half of September with its series of hints that we have at last bade farewell to summer days. The GAA championship season draws to an end . . . the autumnal equinox falls around the 21st or 22nd day of the month . . . the corn has been harvested . . . out the country the turf sheds are loaded up for the Winter season . . . and the dreaded Christmas word tends to get mentioned in the same breath as parties and hangovers. John Keat’s opening lines in his ode To Autumn, about ‘the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’, and ‘close bosom friend of the maturing sun’ seem to capture the atmosphere of the month, with September always delivering a rich crop of apples and wild fruits. It is the month of farewells too, as the swallows who have flown in and out of sheds within a millimetre of our temples all summer long, start to assemble on the telephone wires with plump bellies ready for their trip to the warmer climes of South Africa. Their arrival last April heralded the start of the summer and there’s a long tradition in rural Ireland of never disturbing a swallow’s nest as their lodging periods in our sheds and barns is regarded as a sign of good luck. True, they do deposit their marks behind them, and through this summer in my own neck of the woods, they were even bolder than normal, winging their way in through half-open bedroom windows before leaving a little reminder behind them that they had called. Those small irritations apart though, they are the most wonderful of creatures and their loyalty in flying back to us every Spring from the southern hemisphere is a truly awesome gift of nature. This week the National Ploughing Championships will have come and gone and their location on the calendar through the third week of September is no coincidence. They are timed to coincide with the end of the harvesting season when the labours of the long days have been completed and the feed supplies have been stored safely away for the Winter season to come. For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
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A search for solace as we bid farewell to our season...

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Country Living with Francis Farragher There is always something mildly melancholic about the second half of September with its series of hints that we have...
Joe Healy
Connacht Tribune

‘Talk to Joe’ as IFA gets back on track

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GALWAY’S National IFA President Joe Healy has got a strong endorsement from his own county as the mid-term review of the association’s top positions...
Maura Canning, in action earlier this year in the Co. Galway Ploughing Championships in Monivea – she will now be representing Galway in next week’s National Finals in Screggan, Tullamore. Photos: Hany Marzouk.
Connacht Tribune

Galway set to plough ahead

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GALWAY will have a total of 16 competitors taking part in next week’s National Ploughing Championships with two participants set to defend their All-Ireland...
Eamon Ó Cuív: Mindset change needed.
Connacht Tribune

Bank is slated for rural cutbacks

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BANK of Ireland have been slated by Fianna Fáil Rural Affairs Spokesman for withdrawing over-the-counter services at 100 branches across small rural towns and...
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