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Pat Keating's 600-ewe flock around Mahon Falls
Pat Keating checks on his Scotch ewes running with the ram on the home farm at Commeragh, Kilrosanty, Co Waterford. \ Donal O' Leary
Pat brings all lambs to a finish after picking his replacements. \ Donal O' Leary
Pat's Scotch ewes grazing near Mahon Falls in the Commeragh mountains, Co Waterford. \ Donal O' Leary
Pat Keating. \ Donal O' Leary
Caroline O'Keefe milks 120 cows in Co Cork
Caroline O' Keeffe with one of her pet cows on the home farm in Nadd, Co Cork. \ Donal O' Leary
Caroline with her parents Clare and Martin. \ Donal O' Leary
Selecting hogget ewes for the ram on the Beara peninsula
Sophie O' Neill helping her father Donal and grandfather John select the hogget ewes for the ram on the home farm on the Beara peninsula at Gour, Castletownbere, Co Cork. \ Donal O' Leary
Sophie O' Neill. \ Donal O' Leary
John O' Neill. \ Donal O' Leary
Cheviot-cross hogget ewes on the Beara peninsula, Co Cork. \ Donal O' Leary
A round-up of some of the rest of the pictures from around the country
Willie Cleary's continental weanlings eating forage rape at Ballycolliton, Puckane, Co Tipperary. The rape is being strip-grazed and the weanlings are being supplemented with straw for fibre. \ Odhran Ducie
Victor Barnett driving his class-winning champion to the ring at the Raphoe Livestock Mart fatstock show and sale. \ Clive Wasson
Horse Power: Colman Cogan, Co Sligo, using his traditional horses competing in the South Kerry Ploughing Championships at Coffey's Field, Fossa, Killarney. \ Valerie O'Sullivan
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