Feelings of worthlessness and no confidence that plagued farm contractor and Macra member Andy Nolan from Luggacurren, Co Laois through most of his 20s culminated in the young man's battle with depression coming to a head last year.
Like many young farmers, 21-year-old beef farmer Robert Lally studied dairy business with an eye toward possibly converting into milking cows in the future, but unlike many of his peers, he has decided to stick with beef.
PLANS are in train for a significant expansion of an Offaly meat processing facility understood to be backed by Chinese investors.
Disgruntled beef farmers in the midlands brought a number of meat-processing facilities to a standstill yesterday following a second wave of unofficial protests.
Brazilian women are probably ashamed of President Jair Bolsonaro, French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday, hitting back after the Brazilian leader mocked Mr Macron's wife on Facebook.
Rwandan spies in Australia are informing on refugees from the east African nation, a local media investigation has claimed.
Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to a new indictment that includes revised charges of predatory sexual assault, forcing his trial to be delayed until early next year.
