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IFA negotiates new landowner payment agreements with ESB and EirGrid
Amy Forde
One covers compensation and goodwill payments to landowners for the refurbishment and upgrade of existing overhead electric lines, the other is in relation to the placing of new underground cables.
1 April 2025 News
CPOs at Cliffs of Moher ‘an attempt to intimidate and bully’ – IFA
The association was strongly objecting to draft report recommendations that Clare County Council would use such powers as an option to confiscate private land from farmers on the famous coastal walk.
26 March 2025 News
Zoned land tax deadline next week
The RZLT is a 3% annual tax on land that is zoned for residential use, and suitable for developments with the aim to encourage the generation of land that could be used for housing.
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High beef prices could be the new normal – ICMSA
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Grass farm with large cattle yard has €850,000 guide price
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NI Dutch Spotted spring sale tops at 2,300gns
Capping brings new dynamic to payments
A progressive cap is to be applied to the new Farm Sustainability Payment.
19 March 2025 Northern Ireland
A step back in time at Johnstown Castle
Wexford’s wonderful Irish Agricultural Museum is preserving and reviving stories of rural Ireland, writes Rosalind Skillen.
12 March 2025 Features
Applications open hare’s corner biodiversity initiative
The hare’s corner initiative, run by Burrenbeo Trust in conjunction with Offaly Biodiversity Office, is open for applications for landowners in Offaly, Limerick, Galway, Carlow, Sligo and Meath.
11 March 2025 Climate and environment
Farmers urged to act on RZLT application before deadline
Following intensive lobbying on the residential zoned land tax last year, then-Minister for Finance Jack Chambers announced an exemption for landowners in Budget 2025.
3 March 2025 News
New €500,000 partnership for nature restoration
The project, announced at the Lions Club National Convention in Tullamore on Friday, has been allocated €250,000 per year will be allocated for 2025 and 2026, to support restoration projects.
28 February 2025 Climate and environment
Sinn Féin calls for hedge-cutting exemption
One of the main factors for power outages was trees falling on power lines and blocking access to power lines.
25 February 2025 News
Support for rural housing rings hollow as planning continues to thwart families
A new eight-week series on building a house in rural Ireland begins with Irish Country Living looking at all the factors that farming families need to consider when planning a home.
5 February 2025 Features
‘No plans’ for State to buy large tracts of mountain land for forests
The Minister pointed out that under the current forestry programme, there is a scheme specifically created to enable planting of new native woodlands on suitable publicly owned bare land.
3 February 2025 Forestry
Gardaí conduct operation targeting illegal hunting
The initiative is in cooperation with the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the Co Clare Dog Warden Service with checkpoints being carried out across Co Clare.
13 January 2025 News