Environment
New rules that will place a limit on the legal costs to the state when environment-related judicial reviews are upheld are now in force.
Rural Life
A recent high court ruling found that a CPO can go ahead on a planned section of Connemara greenway, despite objections from a landowner.
Agri-Business
A judge has said that farmers now owed more than a cumulative €300,000 by Asba Meats are being repaid on a ‘drip-fed’ basis.
Sheep
A 78-year old east Clare man who has pleaded guilty to owning a dog that 'worried' livestock has escaped a conviction.
A Northern Ireland based company that runs an AD facility in Co. Derry has been fined £6,000 after a discharge of "slurry-like" material.
Agri Politics
The European Commission has responded to a vote at the European Parliament today (Wednesday,...
The Supreme Court has ruled that landowners can be compensated for depreciation across their entire land holding when the ESB erects pylons.
A south Co. Galway farmer has told a judge that his life has been turned upside down over his bail ban from Gort and his farm near there.
A court in the US has ordered Bayer to pay over $2 billion after a jury in a civil trial decided that Roundup caused a man's cancer.
Machinery
Police in England have confirmed that a man has been ordered to pay £873,852.48, for figure heading an Oxfordshire tractor theft operation
A Belgian farmer and a number of NGOs are attempting to sue a major fossil fuel company, claiming damages as a result of climate change.
Potato farm business Country Crest has been ordered to pay over €88,000 to a neighbouring business after spray drift caused damage to apples.
A judge has told "gentleman farmers" that he has no interest having court time used for a feud between the sides to be played out.
Up to 110ac of land that Michael Scott was farming was set to be taken back by his aunt, who he is accused of murdering in 2018.
A judge has jailed a 29-year-old Co. Clare man for 14 months for a "bite" assault on a farmer in a pub last May.
Breda Moloney called the children "retards" as they undertook a nature walk on St. Brigid's Day, a court has heard.
An assault charge relating to an alleged incident in Ennis mart in 2021 has been dismissed by Judge Mary Larkin.
Gardaí tried to arrest one of the men for suspected drink driving however he did not stop and a confrontation ensued in the farmyard.
A judge has compared a late-night farmyard scene, in which a father and son confronted Gardaí with a calving jack, to the 'wild west'.
A farmer son of Euromillions winner, Dolores McNamara is facing an assault charge arising from an alleged incident at Ennis Mart last August.
A farmer-publican, who sold after-hours alcohol to patrons at Liam O’Riain’s pub in Ballina, Co. Tipperary was fined €200
Clonakilty District Court Judge James McNulty expressed surprise at what he termed the “lamentable ignorance” of a landowner over scrub clearance during the bird nesting season.
N.Ireland
A Castlewellan farmer has been fined £25,000 after a labourer died on his farm during a construction accident. Toirdealbhach Larkin, known..
