LONG before Joe Canning, John Fenton and other hurling artists acquired cult status for their skill in taking line balls, a certain Michael Moroney from Crusheen was an expert at it.

DESPITE snow, ice and the credit crunch, nearly 15,000 people attended the three-day farm machinery show at Punchestown Event Centre in Co Kildare last week.

THE 2009 Farm Machinery Show at Punchestown Event Centre next week will be closely monitored to see what impact the recession is having on the purchasing intentions of agricultural contractors and farmers.

THE Director of Public Prosecutions will decide whether a 20-year-old Kerry motorist will be retried on a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of a garda and a firefighter after a jury at Limerick Circuit Court yesterday could not reach a verdict.

A DEFENCE witness has disputed prosecution evidence at the trial of a driver charged in relation with the deaths of a Garda and a firefighter.

THE €500 million a year Irish farm machinery industry has a new training centre to serve the island of Ireland.

THE stark reality of Ireland’s road carnage was laid bare by college students touched by tragedy yesterday.

MORE than 15,000 people are estimated to have attended the three-day Farm Machinery Show, which ended at Punchestown Event Centre in Co Kildare yesterday.

THE €320 million farm machinery industry is in buoyant mood as it braces itself for a three-day shop-window exhibition.

AN estimated €20 million worth of hi-tech agri machinery will be on display at the Farm Machinery Show in Punchestown Event Centre in Naas, Co Kildare, on February 6,7 and 8.

A 60-COW dairy herd from Co Clare is the 2006 champion herd in the Limerick and Clare Friesian breeders’ club awards.

Old tractors are being snapped up all over the country and shipped to farmers in Poland, it emerged today.

DESPITE a slightly depressed farm machinery market in 2003, tractor sales remained buoyant, according to the Farm Tractor and Machinery Trade Association (FTMTA).