2+ hour, 56+ min ago  (187+ words) Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon has made a formal complaint to garda, saying two signs were ripped from the door of his constituency office at a weekend protest against Bord Bia chairman Larry Murrin. The complaint came after an estimated…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago  (700+ words) Several farmers have maintained a sit-in protest inside the Bord Bia offices in Dublin 4 for a month now, in a protest over the chairman's imports of Brazilian beef. The dispute began after it emerged that Bord Bia chairman Larry Murrin's…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago  (338+ words) Dog owners have been warned to keep their animals under control as lambing season gets under way amid increases in sheep worrying incidents. Minister for Agriculture Martin Heydon said, "you simply cannot bring your dog for a walk out in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (380+ words) Michael Gaine, the murdered Kerry farmer whose remains were found in a slurry spreader last year, left an estate valued at "1.86 million, official records show. Gaine (56) was reported missing in March 2025, prompting a number of large-scale searches of farmland over…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (509+ words) A woman killed in a road crash in Co Limerick last week has been remembered as a "brilliant" nurse who spent her life putting others before herself. "ine O'Reilly, from Pallasgreen, was described during her funeral Mass as a "warm…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (623+ words) Consultancy Climeaction is expanding into software with an application aimed at the multinational food industry after investing "2.8 million to grow the business. The Cork-based firm, which advises PepsiCo and pharmaceutical giants Abbott and Johnson & Johnson among others, has developed its…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (710+ words) The Office of Public Works (OPW) has warned it could have to reduce spending on flood protection measures if forced to foot the bill for a long-planned National Children's Science Centre that could cost "70 million or more. Under an arbitrator's…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (371+ words) Fianna F'il MEP Barry Cowen has said it is "beyond time" for a resolution to protests calling for the resignation of Larry Murrin as chairman of Bord Bia. The former minister for agriculture said a line needed to be drawn…...

3+ week, 5+ hour ago  (674+ words) The farming lobby's targeting of Bord Bia and its chair Larry Murrin over beef imports is "very disappointing, Minister for Education Hildegarde Naughton has said. The Fine Gael TD said protests by farm groups were "potentially very damaging to the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1837+ words) It's a springtime farming special this week. The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food treated us to a brace of highly entertaining meetings for two days on the trot while the horny-handed sons and daughters of Sinn F'in turned…...