A joint programme to provide family farms with the skills and technologies to operate sustainable dairy systems has been launched by Glanbia Ireland and Teagasc.

Dublin City Council has been told that more than €13m is needed to make the historic Iveagh Markets safe.

Glanbia Ireland paid some €1 billion, including VAT, to 4,500 farmers across rural Ireland for milk supplies last year.

China’s 700 million pigs eat about 400g of lactose each in their lifetime.

The Dairygold Co-op board has maintained the March milk price at the February level of 31.19 cent per litre (cpl), including VAT, and a 0.65cpl quality and sustainability bonus.

An increase in the Ornua Price Purchase Index monthly indicator of market returns on dairy products offers co-ops to hold December milk prices unchanged from November.

Glanbia and Dairygold’s green barley and wheat price is €205, about 40% higher than the 2017 prices.

Farmers have welcomed Agriculture Minster Michael Creed’s fodder transport scheme for livestock farmers in the west and northwest.

Dublin City Council is set to take possession of Iveagh Market.

Agriculture must share in Ireland’s bid to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30% relative to the 2005 level.

Co-ops are disappointed by the new EU scheme to reduce milk production, said ICOS President, Martin Keane. 

Ireland’s agri-food leaders have urged the Government to do everything in its powers to ensure the EU maintains an open approach to future trade with Britain, following last Thursday’s Brexit referendum.

Industry leaders have praised the cross-category strategy in Food Wise 2025, the agri-food sector’s 10-year plan to expand its exports by 85% to €19bn and create 23,000 jobs.

Henry Corbally’s appointment as chairman of the Glanbia plc board has been well received by the agri-food sector.

Every marathon runner has a back story — a personal goal, a special intention, a charity or cause that’s close to their heart. At this year’s Irish Examiner Cork City Marathon there was no shortage of driven individuals eager to share their reasons for running.

Profits at the group that owns the Oliver St John Gogarty pub and Blooms Hotel in Dublin’s Temple Bar were hit last year after the group’s three directors paid themselves €900,000 in pension contributions.

The owners of the Oliver St John Gogarty pub in Dublin’s Temple Bar last year wrote up pre-tax profits totalling €3.8m.

Senior executives of Dairygold and Glanbia have been elected to the roles of president and vice-president of the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS).

Losses at the hotel and pub group that owns Blooms Hotel and the Oliver St John Gogarty pub in Dublin’s Temple Bar narrowed last year to €1m.

THE spectre of unemployment has uncovered heroes through a Clare-based charity. Builders, chippies, sparks, accountants and others who faced being out of work are busy preparing to go to Africa, where they will bring a happy ending to a heartbreaking story.

WHETHER building homes, jetting holidaymakers off to the sun or ensuring shops are stocked with the nation’s favourite cuppa, Irish entrepreneurs are in a class of their own.

Glanbia plc has today announced four changes to its board of directors.