In Ireland, sheep may rule the hillsides, but it’s the dogs that truly run the show. Generations of Joyce family farmers in ...

Sheep farming in NI remains a vital part of the agriculture industry, rural communities and local economies. Declines in ...

B orn in London to Irish parents in 1972, Clune’s family moved back to the Emerald Isle when he was just a year old to open a sheep and barley farm in the rural Irish county of Wicklow.

Irish sheep farming is being “allowed to fail”, warns a factory agent of 30 years’ standing – and the only way to keep the sector alive, he says, is for the processors to “incentivise ...

Cork sheep farmer shocked by “one in a million” quintuplet lambs Pat Cooney says he was "elated" to welcome the quintuplet of lambs to his farm in Co Cork in March.

Seventy Years in the Wild West: The Rise and Fall of Ireland’s Largest Sheep Farm, Southwest Mayo, 1851–1923 is available now from all good bookshops and online at www.mayobooks.ie.

At the recent launch of the 2025 Cloonacool Sheep Festival it was announced that this year’s event would feature a visit for the President of the Irish Farmers Association and an attempted world ...

The final six contestants competing for the title of FBD Young Farmer of the Year 2025 have been announced and include an equine farmer from Tubbercurry, County Sligo. The finalists are: Aileen ...