N.Ireland
A Northern Ireland based meat supplier has been fined £2,000 in court for breaches of the food hygiene legislation.
Rural Life
A former cocaine user has failed in a bid to overturn a garda decision to revoke his firearms licences for guns used to control vermin on farms.
A Tyrone farmer was sentenced at a court in Dungannon today following "multiple welfare inspections" by DAERA.
A man accused of murdering Kerry farmer Michael Gaine is due to appear in person at Tralee District Court next week.
Agri-Business
Cooney Furlong Limited has been fined €100,000 at Wexford Circuit Criminal Court, following a fatal work-related incident.
News
A Co. Limerick farmer faces up to five years in prison and or a €250,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to 173 animal cruelty offences in court.
Court
Tralee District Court has heard that a bail application is ready to proceed for a man accused of murdering Kerry farmer Michael Gaine.
Forestry
A Co. Galway landowner has told a court that he was unaware that lands where 1.9ha (4.7ac) of trees were felled was a SAC.
A Co. Offaly landowner has been fined €10,500 at a district court for the "destruction of vegetation" which included a 283-year-old oak tree.
The case against a man accused of murdering Kerry farmer Michael Gaine was further adjourned at Tralee District Court today.
Beef
Legislation which provides for the enforcement of payments to farmers from meat producers “could have come in years ago” a court has heard.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Berlin, Germany has filed an indictment against...
A sawmill company in Northern Ireland has been fined £87,000 after an employee had his foot amputated following a serious injury at work.
A farmer in Northern Ireland has been convicted in court for water pollution offence that resulted...
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Riga, Latvia has secured a conviction at the...
A man has pleaded guilty at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court to sexually assaulting a teenage boy while he was working on his farm.
A US national charged with the murder of Co. Kerry farmer Michael Gaine has been remanded in custody again today (Wednesday, March 18).
A judge has told a court that cattle owners and property owners have an obligation to ensure that their cattle do not cause damage.
Environment
Coolmore company Shem Drowne Ltd has today (Friday, March 13) been fined €100,000 for the removal of hedgerows in Co. Tipperary.
Meade Potato Company Unlimited has been fined €150,000 following an incident in which an employee’s arm was trapped in machinery
A Co. Galway farmer has pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of a then 16-year-old girl on board a transatlantic Aer Lingus flight to Boston.
A court in Northern Ireland has fined a farmer for a water pollution offence that resulted in a fish kill.
A farmer in Northern Ireland has been convicted in court in relation to a water pollution...
