Does wine have a gender? There was a time when tasting notes would refer to a wine as feminine or masculine — a delicate fragrant chablis might be feminine but a big fruity hermitage from the Rhone would always be masculine.

IFA in Limerick have sought a meeting with the Craft Butchers Association to discuss the trade in heifers aged over 24 months.

The Craft Butchers Association has launched a campaign aimed at winning back business it has lost to large retail outlets.