Rashers may sound quintessentially Irish, but a survey has found that half the bacon and pork tested in butchers’ shops was imported.

Over half of Irish-branded pork and bacon products sold in Irish stores are made using imported pigmeat, “name and shame” DNA tests funded by the Irish Farmers Association have shown.

Teagasc and the IFA have launched a joint pig research and advisory programme at Teagasc Oak Park, Co Carlow.

SuperValu is set to have access to the world’s first national DNA database for pigs.

It’s the remarkable lost and found story that might just ring a bell.

The eagle-eyed fisherman who plucked a wedding ring from the river Lee last week got a free eye test yesterday.

It looks like the wedding band found in the River Lee by an angler could end up being auctioned for charity after all.

Proposals have flooded in to the fisherman who plucked a wedding ring out of the River Lee.

It’s the most valuable catch this experienced fisherman has ever landed — but it’s one he’s very anxious to give back.

THE traceability systems on farms have been robustly vindicated by the report of the Oireachtas Agriculture and Food Committee report on last year’s dioxin crisis, the Irish Farmers Association has claimednoted.