Rural Ireland is fast becoming the winner from the local and European elections.
Sharp divisions over the share-out of the €100m Brexit beef package emerged this week, with the farm organisations expressing divergent views over who should qualify for supports.
Many of the country's marts are not prepared for the introduction of electronic tagging of sheep (EID) and will not have tag reading systems in place by June 1.
THE richest black man in America stunned a group of graduating students at the weekend by promising to pay off all their student debt.
UKRAINE'S new president dismissed parliament and called a snap election just moments after being sworn into office yesterday.
Talk of war with Iran seemed to subside in Washington over the past week. As is his wont, US President Donald Trump lambasted media coverage of his administration's moves against the regime in Tehran. But in doing so he also seemed to push back against an aggressive agenda set by his national security adviser John...
The Austrian government was plunged further into crisis yesterday when the far-right FPO party resigned its ministerial posts en masse after the chancellor sacked the interior minister over a Russia-linked corruption scandal.
