Coca-Cola has confirmed it is in "regular discussions" about enhancing its presence in Ireland but remained tight-lipped about reports it is looking to create a dairy plant in Cork.

Whether it’s for health reasons or a lifestyle choice, quitting alcohol has become a mindful movement.

The HSE has apologised unreservedly to the family of a part-time farmer who died at Cork University Hospital three days after being admitted for injuries he suffered while cutting down a tree.

Ireland’s biggest fuel forecourt supplier Topaz has moved to cement its position as market share leader by announcing plans to open a 24-hour motorway service station on the Cork to Dublin motorway.

Cork scientists have found that breastfeeding is very important for premature babies born by caesarian section.

 

Today, 30 June

Gardaí and the Health and Safety Authority have both launched investigations into the death of a 28-year-old man on the family farm in Co Cork yesterday afternoon.

THE revolt in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916 did not immediately spread to the rest of the country as was intended.

The subject of breeding is not something I frequently broach on this page, for fear of frightening away the more timid reader.

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Thursday, March 24

Feeding calves milk once per day (OAD) from three weeks of age had no impact on calf weight at 77 days.

Industry leaders took time to honour an agrifood legend with the launch of the €4.5m Paddy O’Keeffe Innovation Centre at the Teagasc campus in Moorepark, Fermoy, Co Cork.

The strategic plan envisaged by the troika of Horse Sport Ireland, Teagasc and the RDS is fundamentally all about ensuring the horse sector can deliver on its potential.

The abolition of the EU’s dairy quota restrictions in 2015 will represent both an opportunity and a challenge for Irish farmers, Ireland East MEP Mairead McGuinness said at yesterday’s Lakeland Dairies milk quality awards in Virginia, Co Cavan.

Animal scientist Donagh Berry has been presented with a prestigious award for his work in animal genetics.

Giving infants antibiotics that also kill many evolving healthy gut bacteria could be putting them at risk of developing asthma, obesity and allergies later on, a groundbreaking Irish study suggests.

A course on managing miscanthus, willow, canary and switch grasses energy crops will commence at Teagasc, Oak Park, Carlow, on Oct 17.

Yesterday’s disclosure that the Teagasc Centre at Oak Park, Carlow, is to carry out field trials on a genetically modified potato that would improve resistance to blight, is viewed locally as welcome news for a county which itself has been ‘blighted’ by job losses in recent years.

Almost two-thirds of sheep farmers plan to expand numbers over the next five years, an ICSA survey has revealed.

The temperature in Rome was high yesterday, matched by the spirit in the Irish camp, if Billy Twomey is any sort of barometer.

THINNING is now taking place in many farm forests planted during the 1990s and early 2000s.

FORESTERS are obliged to record accurate measurements of the quantities of timber they remove from woodlands during the current thinning season, caution experts at Teagasc.