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Better Farming for Water ensures water quality for future – Macra

Better Farming for Water is an initiative run by Teagasc, in partnership with Macra.

NEWS 11 February 2026

Better Farming for Water ensures water quality for future – Macra

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How this Laois derogation farmer is helping water quality

How this Laois derogation farmer is helping water quality

Tirlán supplier Séamus Brennan is in derogation and using the Farming for Water EIP to draw down funding to create new water quality measures on his land.

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Dempsey at Large: getting the facts straight on nitrates

Dempsey at Large: getting the facts straight on nitrates

Just as most medicines have side effects, the aim has to be to work out if the side effects justify the action.

VIEWPOINTS 1 December 2025

Letter - concerns over Macroom biomethan plant

Letter - concerns over Macroom biomethan plant

'What a biomethane plant means in the wrong location,' - Chris Barrett, Macroom Biogas Concern Group

LETTERS 1 December 2025

Market Digest: stories from around the world

Market Digest: stories from around the world

Brief news snippets from China, New Zealand, United States and Germany.

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Colm McCarthy: resourcing Ireland's water and electricity needs

Colm McCarthy: resourcing Ireland's water and electricity needs

The ESB was accordingly designed from the beginning in 1927 as a State-wide monopoly company, initially to develop hydro resources starting with the Shannon scheme.

VIEWPOINTS 1 December 2025

Uisce Éireann convicted and fined over river pollution

Uisce Éireann convicted and fined over river pollution

Uisce Éireann was found to have committed pollution breaches relating to the Balla wastewater treatment plant, Co Mayo, and must now pay €3,165 in connection with the case.

NEWS 1 December 2025

Over €13m in funds to remove barriers to fish migration in rivers

Over €13m in funds to remove barriers to fish migration in rivers

The Minister of State for Nature welcomed the funding as a means of helping to meet Nature Restoration Law targets for free-flowing rivers.

CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT 1 December 2025

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A message from Bord Bia to Irish farmers and growers

Bord Bia addresses the concerns and misinformation that have been raised in recent weeks.

A message from Bord Bia to Irish farmers and growers

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