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Posted by The Analyst | 02 April 2020 | Farming
Advice: How can I stop my noisy neighbours from ruining the one day off I have?

Q I haven't had a proper sleep-in for nearly a year. A neighbour sold a site right across from me in 2018 and since last April, some people have been building a monstrosity of a house on it.

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 April 2020 | Farming
10 steps to better ploughing this spring

Good ploughing starts with the tractor. Tyre pressures shouldn't be too high as this can cause wheel slip. For better performance, tyre experts Michelin recommend reducing rear pressures to around 22psi and front pressures to around 18psi.

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 April 2020 | Farming
‘I wanted people to be able to buy our eggs directly from us as well as in the shops’

Gerry McHugh is the third generation of his family to run Glenborin Eggs outside Donegal town. Until now the farm has been supplying hotels, restaurants and shops across Donegal.

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 April 2020 | Breaking News
How books turn the page on my lockdown misery

It's in the late afternoons that the peace descends. A peace that, without realising it, I had somehow lost along the way. In truth, not lost so much as abandoned, that once beautiful sound of reading in silence replaced by the clamour and click of technology. Checking emails. Surfing travel sites for flight prices or...

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 April 2020 | Breaking News
FBI facing criticism for wire-tap regulations

The FBI failed to keep all the records needed to justify wire-taps within the United States, a Justice Department watchdog has said in a report which raises new questions about a domestic surveillance programme criticised by lawmakers in both main political parties and civil libertarians.

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 April 2020 | Breaking News
Lockdown Letters: ‘If anything happens to my grandmother or my friends and family, I won’t be able to say goodbye the Irish way’

I'm a native of New Ross, Co. Wexford. I've been in Sydney 24 years but have travelled home every year since to visit close family and friends, sometimes twice a year.

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Posted by The Analyst | 02 April 2020 | Breaking News
CPR would be futile in cases of Covid-19 – and it would put healthcare workers at serious risk

On Tuesday evening, the Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP), collaborating with the HSE, circulated updated advice to GPs regarding Covid-19 infection in communities. This latest bundle includes a paper from 'The BMJ', communicating advice that people with Covid-19 infection in communities should not be subjected to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

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