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Wood Awards Ireland 2024 winners announced
Donal Magner
The overall award goes to the spectacular renovation of Kinsale Library by Cork County Council Architects in a competition that promotes excellence in wood.
11 December 2024 News
An Bord Pleanála refuses Mayo AD plant
The project, located in Swinford, Co Mayo, was designed to be fully supplied with agricultural feedstock from local farmers, with 35% sourced from slurry and 65% from multispecies grass swards.
11 December 2024 For Sale
Ox Mountain hill farm with BISS entitlements
A hill farm in Co Sligo with road frontage onto the main Tubbercurry to Ballina road has just come on the market, writes Tommy Moyles.
State to buy 50ac island on Lough Ree for birds
Minister of State for nature Malcolm Noonan announces plans to purchase island on Lough Ree for strategic management of breeding waders.
1 November 2024 Climate and environment
Uisce Éireann ordered to pay over €6,000 for pollution of Sligo river
Uisce Éireann has been prosecuted following the discharge of poorly treated sewage into the Owengarve River.
18 October 2024 News
State to buy 165ac in Kilkenny
Minister of State for nature Malcolm Noonan announced that the State will purchase just under 165ac land within and adjacent to the Cullahill Mountain SAC.
14 October 2024 News
Splendid Slieve Bloom farm on the market
A large farm in north Co Laois is making its way to online auction in October. Offered in its entirety or in two lots the land runs into the Slieve Bloom mountains, reports Tommy Moyles.
25 September 2024 For Sale
How six farmers fared in appeals against the Department of Agriculture
The annual report of the Agriculture Appeals Office has shown that 48% of appeals taken by farmers were successfully contested with the plaintiff receiving a payment or not receiving a penalty.
11 September 2024 News
Kerry Ingredients and Cork Marts also in planning focus
Two major agribusinesses have also been the subject of Peter Sweetman’s agri-planning campaign.
7 August 2024 News
Peter Sweetman: planning campaign sparked by illegal slurry spreading
Serial objector Peter Sweetman tells Caitríona Morrissey why he is targeting farm developments in a campaign on planning permission.
7 August 2024 Buildings
Half of EFS higher level applicants rejected
Over 500 applications were received for the eight tranche of the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) higher level.
3 July 2024 Northern Ireland