Tag: farming
Tuam sludge will be stored in shed on Kilconnell lands
SLUDGE from a treatment plant in Tuam will be transported 30 miles away where it can be treated and then spread across agricultural lands...
Galway farmers part of demo on liquid milk crux
GALWAY farmers took part in a supermarket protest yesterday in Portlaoise aimed at highlighting the ‘loss leader’ sales of milk across some of the...
LEADER: millions are left unspent
THE LEADER programme – designed to stimulate economic activity in rural areas – is failing to get off the ground in any meaningful way,...
Rains put pressure on 2017 harvest
CONCERN is growing among grain growers in the West over this year’s harvest with combines grinding to a halt over the past week due...
Preserve our past – for the future
By Anthony O'Connor
COUNTY Galway, with its extensive coastline and numerous internal rivers and lakes, has seen the coming of many civilisations and invasions –...
Hoping for drier and calmer times as the harvest looms
A two-week break down on the farm and in the heathery hollows of the bog has officially brought the curtain down on the summer...