Get your share of home-grown beef.

With their flat caps, half tans, and muddy shoes, farmers might be an unlikely choice of pin-up, yet every year thousands scramble to get their hands on the Irish Farmer Calendar, ogling the prime Irish beef within.

Overseas charities were the biggest recipients of the €2.18m paid by offenders to the court poor box, according to figures compiled by the Courts Service.

I would like to thank your readers for the fantastic support they gave to Bóthar’s recent ‘Matching Grant Appeal’. Without the support of individuals, communities and businesses throughout Co. Mayo, Bóthar wouldn’t be able to raise struggling families above the poverty line.

Ireland’s farmers are officially cream of the crop —but just in Cork.

We were lucky enough to grab a sneak peek of the 2015 version of the Irish Farmers Calendar.

A Cork woman is helping the economy of a terror-stricken part of Africa by developing an Irish country creamery there.

Two of the country’s leading charities spent €500,000 on their Christmas gifts radio advertising campaigns in 2013.

The former chief executive of the scandal-hit Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) has repaid the extra salary he received which was in excess of HSE guidelines.

Livestock aid charity Bóthar has recorded a €1.3m deficit for 2012 and has been “in crisis” for the past five years, according to its new chief executive.

AN Irish Examiner survey of the pay packages earned by the heads of leading charities shows most are on salaries ranging from €100,000 to €150,000.

TOMMY BOWE packed a lot into his summer. It kicked off with a three-week trek down America’s West Coast, a 15-hour promotional blitz across Ireland and countless rounds of golf and games of table tennis in Carton House.

BÓTHAR, the Limerick based charity, is casting its message further afield to Irish people living abroad, with the launch of a website.

BÓTHAR, the Limerick-based charity which sends livestock every year to more than 5,000 families in 35 developing countries, has named second-in-command, David Moloney, as the organisation’s new chief executive.

THE founder of one of Ireland’s most successful charities, livestock aid organisation Bóthar, has announced his retirement as chief exec-utive after 20 years in the post.

A NEW world record was achieved in Limerick at the weekend when thousands of Irish and Welsh rugby fans lined out to support the third world charity Bóthar.

MICK LALLY’S driving passions of acting, the Irish language and the struggle for social justice were to the fore in the humanist ceremony which marked the 64-year-old actor’s final journey yesterday in west Dublin.

BÓTHAR, the international development agency that specialises in the use of livestock, has launched an unusual appeal to farmers.

Marts: There was almost 1,000 cattle for the opening sale at the new Cork Marts sale centre at Rathcormac (Fermoy) yesterday. The new mart has replaced the 50-year-old mart in Fermoy town.

MORE than 400 goats were yesterday flown from Shannon to Tanzania, where each of the animals will be given to a family as part of the Bóthar helping programme.

Two hundred and seventy-five goats are being airlifted out of Belfast tomorrow to Tanzania.

THE Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, Dr Dermot Clifford, performed the opening ceremony at the opening of a historic dairy processing plant in Malawi last week.

STUNG, not once but seven times, Philip McCabe still wants to have another go at getting bees swarm all over his body to get into the Guinness Book of Records.

LIMERICK-based charity Bothar has lined up a fund raising event which could buzz its way into the Guinness Book of Records.

The Old Midleton Distillery offers a Corporate Gift Service - you can send a gift of a premium bottle of Irish to your customers, friends and clients overseas - full range of whiskey and other spirits available.

THE mother of a young man who died following a litany of medical failures and errors said the family pursued a negligence action not for money but because of the “grave injustice” suffered by her son.

A Cork family was today awarded €76,000 compensation and a full apology from a hospital where their 21-year-old son was treated after being misdiagnosed.

ONE of the country’s oldest fairs is to develop international links with poorer countries, using its long association with goats.