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Joe Barry: How planting the right trees can help the bees – and save our own species
Margaret Donnelly: IFA in desperate need of passionate election candidates to ignite interest in presidential race
Jim O’Brien: I feel like I’m in the confessional with brazen speakerphone train passengers
Darragh McCulough: They want us to replant, rewet and rethink – but they can’t overlook the emotional cost
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Conor Skehan: EU’s Nature Restoration Law must make room for humans too
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Angus Woods: Farm orgs’ policy void is being filled by more capable lobbyists – and farmers will lose out
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Help rural Ireland flourish by tweaking rules Clarkson’s Law-style to encourage farm diversification
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John Downing: Ministers stuck between bog and a hard place in 330,000-hectare rewetting scheme
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John Heney: I had a dream... where EU bigwigs paid for the damage they caused
Peter Hynes: Countrywide error could do huge harm to farming
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Margaret Donnelly: China’s market represents a big opportunity but beef exporters may not see benefits for some time
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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Farmers have been brainwashed by Continentals
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Darragh McCullough: Time-consuming Cap payment forms have my head melted
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Jim O’Brien: The poor and the oppressed can’t just be someone else’s problem any more – we’re a well-off, ordered nation now
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Sarah Carey: ‘It’s war down there’ – neutrality not an option for rangers on path of killer rhododendron
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Angus Woods: How cheap supermarket food is damaging the environment
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Jim O’Brien: Our politicians are unfairly portrayed in such a negative light, it’s no wonder so many are walking away
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Angus Woods: Tillage farmers need CAP-funded crop insurance to save them from ruin
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Ciaran Moran: Contractors and farmers are in for some tough months of haggling ahead
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Darragh McCullough: The disastrous weather is causing me to break one of my marriage vows
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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Why is solar the only renewable show in town?
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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Drug and alcohol addiction affects nearly every family in rural Ireland – and people need more help
Margaret Donnelly: Be careful what you wish for – a farmers party could actually weaken the rural vote
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I looked like I was trying to execute a controlled gastric explosion – and the woman in the cafe didn’t want to be part of the collateral damage
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Darragh McCullough: Dairy farmers have rarely had it better, so the sob story over milk price cuts doesn’t really wash
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Angus Woods: Here’s what farmers can do to fight back in milk price wars
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Darragh McCullough: Greenwashing ads on the radio make me want to break things
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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: ‘Shed lust’ has got a hold on me – but cold, hard economics are starting to dampen my ardour
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Jim O’Brien: In a land transformed by choice, the clock is ticking for our long-running political duopoly
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Margaret Donnelly: Supermarket milk price cut is a short-term benefit with a larger hidden cost
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Angus Woods: EU farmers are not competing on a level playing field – we need more support
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Margaret Donnelly: Are we on the cusp of a Netherlands-style rural revolt?
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Darragh McCullough: Give yourself a break – so many of us will look back and wish we hadn’t spent so much time working
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Jim O’Brien: How would I like the rest of my life to be? Mellow, meaningful and a bit mad please
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Angus Woods: Farm succession will run smoother if plans are put in place
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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: 10 things I’ve learnt from my first 100 days as a dairy farmer
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Jim O’Brien: Why I have misgivings about the Biden visit
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Darragh McCullough: The ‘family farm’ concept is a cosy but lazy camouflage for politicians to hide under
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Angus Woods: Farm orgs must win back the hearts and minds of the general public – or farmers will suffer
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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: Pretending there isn’t a substantial market for marijuana is pointless – so we should legalise it and let Irish farmers cash in
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By marketing the word ‘farm’, supermarkets have made my brand completely meaningless
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Margaret Donnelly: Who will pay to reverse the decline in biodiversity?
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Jim O’Brien: Ireland's 'Cultural Catholics' - Have We Lost More Than Just Religion?
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Angus Woods: Let Irish farmers sell their carbon credits to the highest bidder
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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: I am one of the ‘forgotten farmers’ – and we are standing by to judge McConalogue on his promise of redress
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Jim O’Brien: How are we supposed to achieve our goals when a long phone call or a recurring technical disaster can derail the best-laid plans?
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Providing younger farmers with more options to access land will be key to staving off succession crisis
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Darragh McCullough: Why flying calves may not be as far-fetched as you think
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Angus Woods: Dairy farmers need a plan B for their calves – they can’t rely on exporting them to Europe
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Hannah Quinn-Mulligan: An apology to the Department – I’m nearly always right but on this occasion I was wrong
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No matter how old we are, nothing lifts our self-esteem like the affirmation of a parent
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Margaret Donnelly: Forestry requires a long-term commitment from farmers, but how can they have any faith in it?
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Darragh McCullough: If farmers want to win the public over, then a national open day should be an annual event
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Angus Woods: One reactor, another in-calf – the perils of buying heifers for finishing