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Opinion: rural Ireland’s future depends on homes for young people

Whether you are interested in agriculture, nature, language or culture, housing has become a defining challenge in rural Ireland, writes Ray Ó Foghlú.

OPINION 25 December 2025

Opinion: rural Ireland’s future depends on homes for young people

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Dempsey at Large: getting the facts straight on nitrates

Dempsey at Large: getting the facts straight on nitrates

VIEWPOINTS 24 December 2025

Home Farm: beef market surprises

Home Farm: beef market surprises

VIEWPOINTS 24 December 2025

TB is entangled in culture, history and social realities

TB is entangled in culture, history and social realities

TB is entangled in culture, history and social realities

OPINION 23 December 2025

Review doesn’t take away from IHT issue

Review doesn’t take away from IHT issue

Review doesn’t take away from IHT issue

NORTHERN IRELAND 23 December 2025

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Opinion: Why are some technologies readily adopted and not others?

Opinion: Why are some technologies readily adopted and not others?

Habit is also a very powerful factor that militates against change. Many farmers simply like having a bull and are reluctant to take up the spreadsheet instead.

VIEWPOINTS 13 December 2025

Ireland needs to up its game on beef marketing

Ireland needs to up its game on beef marketing

How do we future-proof Irish beef in an era of globalisation, falling EU production and the looming Mercosur deal? Asks Nuffield scholar Michael Martin.

OPINION 13 December 2025

Colm McCarthy: resourcing Ireland's water and electricity needs

Colm McCarthy: resourcing Ireland's water and electricity needs

The ESB was accordingly designed from the beginning in 1927 as a State-wide monopoly company, initially to develop hydro resources starting with the Shannon scheme.

VIEWPOINTS 13 December 2025

Dempsey at Large: Need for Irish cereal breeding policy

Dempsey at Large: Need for Irish cereal breeding policy

An informed forum should be assembled immediately and a national policy developed.

VIEWPOINTS 13 December 2025

Home Farm: sophisticated solar

Home Farm: sophisticated solar

The early closed paddocks have covers fit to graze after the long mild spell, but while the grass might be fit to graze, the land certainly isn't.

VIEWPOINTS 13 December 2025

Wise words at the 2025 Winter Fair

Wise words at the 2025 Winter Fair

Last Thursday's event saw large crowds descend on the Eikon Exhibition Centre.

NORTHERN IRELAND 13 December 2025

Opinion: CAP, not Mercosur or nitrates, will determine viability of farming

Opinion: CAP, not Mercosur or nitrates, will determine viability of farming

Next week's CAP protest is about the brass tacks issue of funding for farmers across the next 10 years, but Micheál Martin and the Irish Government are walking a fine line in Brussels these days.

OPINION 13 December 2025

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Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

Our success in export markets depends not only on finding new buyers, but on protecting the strong and hard-fought position we occupy on the global stage.

Irish dairy’s green advantage across the globe

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