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National Ploughing Championships - Young Innovators
At the National Ploughing Championships, young agri start-ups had a chance to pitch for Enterprise Ireland awards, and Suzanne Campbell met three of …
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Minister Christopher O'Sullivan
Ireland sends its plan for restoring nature to Brussels, so how much public money will be allocated to it, and what will it ask? Minister for Nature,…
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Sheepshead Walk
A lot of this vision of a more "open access" Ireland might seem unachievable. But there is an example of farmers opening up access to the public and …
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South Kerry Greenway
This morning we took a a closer look at the kind of access to the countryside that the state is actually investing in; Greenways. 350 km of Greenway …
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'The Pathless Land: Finding A Way Across Ireland'
Tim Hannigan is a Cornish born Travel Writer so as somebody who grew up with a right to roam the countryside, the thing about living in Ireland that …
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Donald Trump touches down in Ireland
Ahead of President Trump's arrival to Ireland, RTÉ News Correspondents Brian O'Connell, Colman O'Sullivan and Elizabeth Hearst brought us the latest …
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Can organic farming provide buffer against weather extremes?
Amanda Galvin is running an organic sheep and tillage enterprise not too far from Tullamore. She hasn’t dipped in to any of her winter fodder, her fi…
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Do we need more drought-resistant pasture to adapt to hot and dry weather?
The creamery Tirlan surveyed 800 of its farmers last week – and over 80% of them said that they had already fed several week’s worth of what they sho…
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"If this summer happens again we'll gear up and maybe spend another half a million euro on another irrigation machinery."
This week, Countrywide reporter Della Kilroy visited Hickeys farm to meet father and son Martin and Gerard Hickey and find out how this summer’s weat…
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"There are some things we won't be able to change, so it is about adapting now for the future."
The number of farmers that have found themselves without water, or running low, or sitting on a sluggish well means that Harry and John Ellis – fathe…
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