Public Expenditure Minister described the scenes outside the Dáil on Wednesday as 'disturbing' and 'appalling'

"There is a recognition of the kind of change that is needed"

Seven revised Leaving Cert curriculums will not be introduced as planned as Normal Foley halts teacher-based assessment

Crisis response teams are to be sent to rural communities grappling with suicides and other tragedies under an initiative launched on Wednesday.

Higher Education Minister Simon Harris said it was 'utterly unacceptable' that young people have to go abroad to study veterinary medicine

Farmers have just over three months to meet the new stocking rate requirements by reducing their herd size or buying or renting more land under nitrates derogation rules

995 participants from across Ireland gathered to participate in this world record-breaking event. 

Inventor Richard Kane admits the machine is the culmination of his own wishlist for the perfect lime spreader.

Farmers are facing this drop from the start of next year.

Gardaí are warning of traffic delays on the way to the Ploughing Championships. They are currently at the scene of a collision in Co Laois.  The incident happened in Mullaghanard, outside Mountmellick on Wednesday morning.

With two more days to go yet at one of Ireland’s biggest festivals, there will be more politicking, more debates on nitrates and more people caked in muck

Everything you need to know about the National Ploughing Championships 2023 in Ratheniska, Co Laois

While he criticised the organisation at present, he said it would be saved by countries like Ireland, who have 'no other aim or ambition other than to have a safe, sustainable, peaceful world'

Justice Minister Helen McEntee said it had been a 'really awful summer' concerning deaths on Irish roads, with worrying trends going in the wrong direction

You're nobody at a Taylor Swift concert unless you're wearing a diaper

Politicians attending the three-day event in Co Laois to face grilling from farmers on issues including nitrates, and the delay in farm scheme payments

The protests, ongoing since Friday, are taking place outside a renovated stables in Castletara which is set to accommodate international protection applicants

Visitors can get advice about farm payments, passport applications and income tax, crime prevention, housing, public health, pensions, and even the up-to-date weather forecast at the one location.

About 50% of humankind’s diet is sourced directly or indirectly from crops pollinated by bees

The final date for submission of closing stock of fertiliser on farms and premises is October 15, 2023.

How to get there safely

Some 320 ploughing competitors from all over the country will vie for national titles and other honours on a 200-acre site which hosted the World Contest last year.

A virtual reality quad bike experience, aimed at helping improve farm safety, will be available for visitors to the National Ploughing Championship from FRS Training.

Around 750 Ukrainian refugees are due to be housed in tented accommodation, mostly in Stradbally — the site of Electric Picnic

Up to 750 Ukrainian refugees are being moved into tented accommodation at the site of Electric Picnic in Stradbally in Laois from Tuesday

Survivors of crime are entitled to learn when the perpetrator is being released from jail but have to sign up to an opt-in victim liaison service of which many are still unaware

From September 1, anyone wishing to sell or purchase fertiliser, including lime, must be registered.

Gardaí have recouped more than €7. 6m from concert promoters, sporting bodies, and the National Ploughing Championships for policing duties over the past year.