Covid-19 has brought about extraordinary changes to the way we live our lives, even if it's pretty much business as usual on most farms.
How divorced are people from the reality of food production? That's the question I was asking myself as the Keelings fruit picker controversy raged last weekend.
The model for the production of meaningful numbers of better conformation, grass-fed beef bullocks in this country is broken.
Home buyers who have been approved for a mortgage are to be given more time to find a property to buy due to the seizing up of the market.
There's a little corner of Monaghan that doesn't quite feel so oppressive during the lockdown.
On April 8 my husband Fionan and I became first-time parents. Our parents became grandparents, our 10 siblings became aunts and uncles and cocooned in Kilkenny, you will even find two newly anointed great-grandmothers.
One month ago, I gave birth to my second daughter Amber on the very day the country seemed to shut down and schools closed.
