SIX farmers have been short-listed as finalists in the National Dairy Council (NDC) Quality Milk Awards, the national competition which sets out to identify and reward the country’s top dairy farmer.

THE Irish Curling Association was formally admitted to the Olympic Council of Ireland last night.

A THREE-YEAR-OLD bay gelding won the young horse championship for a Limerick exhibitor at Cork Summer Show.

QUALITY is the gateway to winning and keeping consumer confidence, Glanbia chairman Michael Walsh declared in Kilkenny yesterday.

ONE of the high points of the Irish sport horse breeding year again attracted big interest at Limerick Show.

A Co Kilkenny farmer is bringing a 15-year battle against mystery pollution on his farm to a Brussels parliamentary committee.

LIMOUSIN breeder Dan Tynan of Mountrath, Co Laois, seems assured of a big attendance for his Ardlea herd production sale next Saturday, October 7.

WEXFORD-bred horses won the ridden hunter championship and the reserve honours for a Co Down exhibitor at last Sunday’s Cork Summer Show.

A 28-year-old Co Kilkenny man has drowned while on holidays with friends in Australia.

A US court has begun hearing an $8m (€6.8m) lawsuit brought by the Irish tenor, Ronan Tynan against a Colorado hotel after an accident while taking a shower.

Dutch police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 26-year-old Co Kilkenny man in Amsterdam over the weekend.

CORK Summer Show revived memories of its glory days last weekend, reverting to a two-day event, and bringing back cattle and sheep classes after an absence of a couple of years.

ONE of the country’s best-known Travellers, Adare antique dealer Simon Quilligan, has made a €595,000 tax settlement with the Revenue Commissioners.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs is to raise the death of a Co Kilkenny farmer with his Czech counterpart in Prague tomorrow.

A 37-year-old Co Kilkenny man who beat his wife to death with a car jack has been sentenced to eight years at the Central Criminal Court.