Denis lauds the virtues of 'Cattle Dealer' a song by two boyos from north Cork who go by the name of HubCap

With Budget 2026 closing in faster than the plastic being stretched over a freshly-made silage pit, Denis Lehane has a shortlist of measures to encourage farmers to stick with the job

From Dáithí Ó Sé, to Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones, you can never tell who will come bounding out of a Portaloo door or squelching around a muddy corner, writes Denis Lehane in this week's Lighten Up

With this year's newfound wealth, the Ploughing is going to be like the Venice Film Festival, only without the boats, and a lot more boots, writes our auld Lehane in this week's Lighten Up

Sheep shearing today, is all about fast living, big money and a jet-setting lifestyle, writes Denis Lehane

The Queen's jeep is a yoke that has very little hard pulling done, and the perfect buy for any farmer, according to our Auld Lehane in this week's Lighten Up

The greatest problem in Irish farming today, bar finding a wife, is ageing, so anti-ageing queen Mariah Carey could be the new hero Irish farmers need, writes our auld Lehane in this week's Lighten Up

The rumble of that truck, the air of panic, the struggle to finish a job I wish I had never started, all became too much to handle, writes our Denis in this week's Lighten Up

Our Auld Lehane is busy packing his bags for a new life in Áras an Uachtaráin as Ireland's premier, in this week's Lighten Up

Richard Harris as The Bull McCabe taught me more about farming passion than any advice from a whiteboard ever did