Planting conifers won't help biodiversity on farms, Teagasc countryside management Specialist, Catherine Keena has warned.
Harvest 2019 is all over for us. Although we heard about yield records being broken, we didn't have any record yields. We are happy enough with all crops compared with the drought last year when all our spring crops suffered. This year all crops looked really well during the year, but then when it came...
Scores of protesters have chanted slogans outside a stadium in Hong Kong where embattled leader Carrie Lam held a 'town hall' session aimed at cooling months of demonstrations for greater democracy in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Israel's president has thrown Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a political lifeline, asking him to try to form a government after he failed to secure a clear election victory twice in six months.
France's senate has approved legislation banning the destruction of unsold non-food items, including cosmetics and luxury items, in a "world first" according to the government.
Saudi Arabia's crown prince said he bears responsibility for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year by Saudi operatives "because it happened under my watch", according to a PBS documentary to be broadcast next week.
Jacques Chirac, a two-term French president who was the first leader to acknowledge France's role in the Holocaust and who defiantly opposed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, has died at 86.
