Proud mum Andrea Collins said her family was holidaying in Donegal in recent days when her son, Joshua, heard loud screaming at a beach in Gweedore.

Stephen Cadogan Sheep farmers are gaining from an early taste of a possible Brexit halt to the annual cross-border imports of nearly 500,000 sheep from the North.

An 85-year-old sheep farmer from the Beara Peninsula has been asked to consider paying for up to four large public safety warning signs after her sheep were found wandering on the public road in contravention of a law dating back to 1851.

Lindsay Hamilton examines the cruel link between economics and animal welfare

These tears are tears of love as a young farm boy says goodbye to one of his own lambs that he reared and is now destined for slaughter.

A nanny goat called Daisy has given birth to twin “geeps” — goat/sheep hybrids — after a week-long dalliance with a Cheviot ram on a Co Mayo farm.

He’s still waiting for his birthday card from Ed Sheeran to arrive, but sheep farmer-turned-internet sensation Joe Kelly did not let that stop the party as he marked his 80th in style with a community celebration.

The number of sheep slaughtered in Britain without being stunned first has doubled in the last six years to more than 11 million, official figures show.

Dog owners are being urged to keep their animals in check after 13 sheep were killed in three separate dog attacks over Christmas.

Those who made the outing to Ballyvourney Coolea Agricultural Show were in for a treat as the weather hit 21 degrees today.

The Connacht Sheep Shearing Championships took place this weekend and the event was ram-med.

Firefighters who rescued a sheep from a 15ft-deep rock crevice said they think her thick woolly coat saved her from serious injury.

A reward of €2,000 is being offered for the return of 45 ewes that have gone missing in Kerry.

A group of 11 people took off their clothes, killed a sheep and chained themselves together by the main gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, before being detained by police, officials have said.

IFA sheep chairman John Lynskey has urged factories to adopt a more responsible, longer term approach to ensure the continued supply of quality assured Irish lamb out of season.

True country pride!

The US is proposing to change regulations which restricted the importation of sheepmeat from the EU.

Full nationwide electronic tagging for sheep would give Ireland a competitive advantage for this crucial sector, ICOS national marts chairman Michael Spellman.

Advances in breeding could see Ireland produce an extra million lambs annually, according to a five-year sheepmeat development which Meat Industry Ireland (MII) has presented to Agriculture Minister Michael Creed.

Maybe he was counting them?

Ewe stoners.

Last week, I wrote about the problems farmers face, with dogs killing their sheep and lambs, and the reasonable steps that both the farmer and dog owner should take to solve this problem.

ENGLAND: Three men are being questioned on suspicion of theft after police spotted some sheep being transported through the suburbs in the back of a people carrier.

Ibec group Meat Industry Ireland has dismissed an IFA call to increase sheep carcase weights, stating that this would run counter to market demand.

It is a known fact that homeowners and farmers alike, who own a dog, are more likely not to be broken into.

A spree of dog attacks have been reported to the Irish Farmers Association from sheep flock owners in counties Wexford, Wicklow, Carlow, Offaly, Longford, and Galway.

The European Commission’s rural development section is supportive of an IFA proposal to offer targeted payments to sheep farmers.

Take a note of what is happening on your farm, and what you are spending most time on.