AS MODERN Irish farming continues to adapt and evolve to its impact on the planet, one enterprising Waterford beef farmer is causing a stir with his new farming venture. “You’ll hear people saying ‘ah but it probably doesn’t taste like real beef’, but honestly, they’re as succulent as anything, if a little on the lean… Read more »
THE NATION’S farmers have been told to hold off forming any considerable dislike or disdain for new Minister for Agriculture, Fianna Fáil TD Charlie McConalogue, until he makes it passed the impressive milestone of holding the office for more than five minutes. “Like, don’t plead with him about how your farm is about to go… Read more »
THEY say if you walk down the right country lane in Ireland, take the second left at the four-crossroads, go on about another mile or so until you get to where there used to be a petrol station until they built the bypass, take a right there and keep on going as far as you… Read more »
HOLDING up a long stream of traffic and travelling at a painful 34 kilometers per hour, local farmer Danny Rice is expected to finally arrive back at the farm later this afternoon after leaving protests in Dublin city on Wednesday. “Jaysis, they’re in an awful rush around here,” Rice barked at a passing BMW that… Read more »
DONNING a weathered flat cap and smearing his rosy red cheeks in coleslaw warpaint, Tom Halley of Hally’s Culchie Solutions was preparing for the biggest day in his career, dispersing Irish beef farmers. Tom had just secured the government contract to be the official ‘Culchie Whisperer’ for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed and… Read more »
NOT WANTING to misrepresent a complex situation regarding an industry he has little to no knowledge of, one lad in work has confirmed he’s got this whole beef dispute situation nailed down after drifting in and out of listening to the radio on the way into the office this morning. Thomas, a co-worker of middling… Read more »
IN RESPONSE to the EU/Mercosur trade deal which will see tariff free beef being imported from South America, the government has publicly stated it would do everything in its power to help Irish beef farmers while simultaneously putting the industry on eBay in a bid to get someone to take them off their hands. “You… Read more »
“YEP, that’s himself there in the back now,” said Waterford farmer Arthur McLennon, pointing towards the man in his mid-thirties tied up towards the back of one of McLennan’s sheds. “Caught him hoking below in the byre there in… Christ now, what would I say it is… August of twenty…. twenty thirteen, so it was. Aye, 2013,… Read more »
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