OFFALY dairy farmer Kevin Heavin was overjoyed to be named Macra na Feirme’s FBD Young Farmer of the Year.

OFFALY dairy farmer Kevin Heavin has been selected as Macra na Feirme’s FBD Young Farmer of the Year after an exciting final in the Seafield Hotel, Gorey, Co Wexford, last night.

THE fairer sex is gaining an edge in the world of farming, with four females through to the final stages of the search for the country’s top farmer.

ALL the arguments that are based on ethical, legal and moral considerations against the use of Shannon Airport by the American military have fallen on deaf ears in Dublin.