A significant lift in TAMS funding for the latest tranche of the farm investment scheme will be required to prevent a backlog of applications and serious delays to on-farm investment.
STUDENTS hoping to attend agricultural colleges this September have to accept their place before they have received their Leaving Cert results.
A massive increase in land designations under the EU Biodiversity Strategy represents a serious threat to farming communities in the west of Ireland, the Irish Natura and Hill Farmers Association (INHFA) has warned.
The failure of Government agencies and meat processors to respond to trade union warnings last March about risks to worker health was a factor in the high level of Covid-19 cases in Irish meat factories, a new report has claimed.
The Government's freeze on rents prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic will come to an end on August 1.
Ireland could find itself part of a global bidding war for supplies of a Covid-19 vaccine after clinical data showed promising results for two experimental jabs.
Supermarkets have seen a number of Covid-19 outbreaks around the country as staff became infected with the virus, it emerged yesterday.