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Desperate Farmwife: is technology making my kids zombies or is it just me?

It feels like our kids were born with an innate understanding of how technology works.

8 January 2025
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Colm McCarthy: Is it time to extend water charges?

Running the water supply and wastewater disposal system will cost the Exchequer up to €2 billion per annum if current ambitions are to be realised.

8 January 2025 VIEWPOINTS
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Discontent among farmers about future payments

Reports suggest a small number of farmers have decided to walk away from the BPS regime.

1 January 2025 NORTHERN IRELAND
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Heavy costs ahead to upgrade our electricity system

Additional power needs new generation units and renewables, wind farms and solar arrays being the favoured options.

1 January 2025 VIEWPOINTS
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A look back at the last 60 years in farming

The most obvious contrast between 'then' and 'now' is the change in scale in every dimension of agriculture.

1 January 2025 VIEWPOINTS
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Dempsey at Large: Variable incomes

The original CAP, with its guaranteed intervention prices and export refunds, was designed to prevent severe fluctuations.

1 January 2025 VIEWPOINTS
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Home Farm: Analysing our dairy beef results

The difference in final price between the best and the worst was a really signifiant €340.

1 January 2025 VIEWPOINTS
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Spilling the tea with Maitre D'

If it's happening in the food world, you better believe your Maitre D' knows about it.

25 December 2024 NEWS
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Opinion: political gongs for 2024

It's time to hand out the plaudits and brickbats for 2024, so who is getting their heart's desire and who has a lump of coal in their Christmas sock?

25 December 2024 OPINION