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Ireland's largest selling farming & rural living publication | Readership: 379,400 weekly print readers on the Island of Ireland. Source: Kantar 2022 TGI Survey

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Irish Farmers Journal
4 years
How cute is this👇 . Katie and Seán Daly from Co Kilkenny having dinner outside their gate while waiting for their Grandad Petey to pass on the tractor to give him a wave 👋 Social distancing at its best 👋 #FarmingFightsBack #StaySafeStayAtHome
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A flood gathered all of the fallen apples in the Bulmers' orchard in #Tipperary after #Ophelia - (credit Tony Egan)
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Kildare farmer Johnny Connolly took this footage of a whirlwind or as it is known in Ireland traditionally a sí gaoithe, translated to 'fairy wind'. It is caused by a swirling updraft of air during sunny conditions. Johnny said it left a track of 100ft wide through the hay.
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Ireland should legalise the growing of cannabis so farmers can get paid for it, rather than the Kinahan gang, according to Luke Ming Flannagan MEP. He also said that farmers should be allowed to grow more hemp and feed it to their cattle.
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Huddling under a heat lamp, a lamb shared the warmth with a robin overnight... ❄️ (Rachel Barnwell, Northampshire)
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Peanut the calf enjoying her last night by the fire before heading out to the heating bulb in the shed🔥 Peanut was born two-months premature, weighing just 10kg, she is now two-weeks-old 📸Jessica Campbell, Co Donegal 👏
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What a photo 📸 Shane Leevey took this photo of the tractor rolling a field near a church in North Leitrim👏
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You have to see it to believe it 👀 🎥 @jen_highlandfarm
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Alexa . . play ‘Rock The Boat’ 📸 Car Kiely
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7 years
What do sleeping robins dream of? John Duffy @an_caora_dubh filmed this on the farm in the Derryveagh Mountains, Donegal - enjoy...
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4 years
Joe St Ledger and Brandy taking a moment in Co Tipperary. Joe is 86 and Brandy is 42(in dog years)👏🏻 📸Willy St Ledger
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Happy Friday 😄 Working dogs of present and future posing for a photo on Sean Curran's farm in Cloghbrack, Connemara, Co Galway 📸
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Its all about working smarter, not harder 🤙 . Check out fifteen-year-old Dylan Sherry milking cows on his uncles farm in Co Monaghan the smart way 👇
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This is how you catch a lamb👇👏🏻 Three-year-old Rachel Nee from Recess, Co Galway, helping her Dad and uncle Conor on their farm🐏 #farmingfightsback #futurefarmer
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Ten-year-old Eimear Clancy from Tubber, Co Clare, beating the isolation blues by playing her calves a few tunes🎼 #homeschooling #WeCanDoThis #farmingfightsback
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Have you seen The @IFJDealer 's photo pick yet, in this week's Irish Farmers Journal? It's Séan Kent's flock of 600 geese, who live in Wicklow. This is the story behind the photo...
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Irish Farmers Journal
3 months
The IFA's national council has decided to mount a nationwide protest on Thursday evening in solidarity with their EU counterparts.
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One Wexford parish is holding mass on Monday night to pray for an improvement in the weather.
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5 years
Recommended reading (free): Justin McCarthy writes on how Irish farmers are being incentivised to reduce beef production only for it to be replaced by a production system that is dependent on the destruction of the Amazon rainforest.
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4 years
Not something you see everyday👇 Tony Bergin from Cooleshall in Roscrea, Co Tipperary, feeding a fox in his farm yard🦊 . Credit to his daughter Antoinette for sending this in📸
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6 years
It’s a hard life being a snowman...when your hair and nose are made of carrots (via @FarmersJScot )
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You are never too young to learn from the master!! William Galvin from Knockroe, Passage East, with his grandson William Barron. Both are ready and planning for the day ahead 📸Nicky Barron
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What are ewe doing in there? 👀 Thanks to sheep farmer Liam Woods from Castletowncooley, Co Louth, for sending us in this photo of a ewe with her lambs taking shelter from the wind in a fallen tree 📸
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Catching snow on your tongue... Spotted on the farm of Roger Barkley in Cappoquin, Co Waterford
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6 years
Grand slam winner @KearneyRob catching up on his farm news after a busy weekend 😉
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3 years
The Department of Agriculture has proposed that scrub or other non-agricultural features be included in the definition of an eligible hectare in the next CAP.
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3 years
When you need a sit down after pulling a bull calf 🥱 #BernieSanders #berniesmittens #calving2021
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6 years
Tommy Moyles has found some footage of his family taken sixty years ago on the land he now farms in west Cork. He writes about it this week...
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5 years
The @farmersjournal has grown its print readership to 263,000 weekly readers in the ROI. With 8,000 new readers, we now have the fastest growing readership of any newsprint publication in the country - thank you for your support!
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A young James Hughes from Westport, Co Mayo hasn’t left the lambing pen since New Year’s Day! He is obsessed with the lambs 🐑 . #thisisfarming
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This week Pat O'Toole joined the Farm Tech Talk team for the first time. Most of the time things go smoothly but....After an hour trying to get a good enough internet connection from Wexford he was finally ready to join in when this happened....😂 @potooleifj @ajwwoods
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7 years
English dairy farmer Edward Towers has found a novel way of overcoming chronic hip pain to milk his herd...
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3 years
Look what this contractor found while baling 👇 "This is a baby fawn deer which was lying in a row of grass which I was bailing, it's mother ran away with the noise. I lifted it to safety and got it reunited with its mother." - Donal McGovern, Co Fermanagh 📸 #silage21
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No job too big or small for three-year-old Antrim farmer Alfie, from Carrickfergus👏🏻 🎥 @FJSheep
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6 years
Exciting moves are taking place in the @farmersjournal ! Starting this week, @amiical takes over as Editor of @IrishCountryLiv , we have hired our first VET with @tommythevet delivering specialist animal health advice & in October @MaryDelaneyKK will be joining us as Head of Sales!
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Farmers head from Carrigtwohill to Cork as part of the nationwide solidarity protest.
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8 years
To celebrate reaching 20k on Twitter, we're giving away an IFJ hamper to one follower. RT for a chance to win!
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Who let the bull out ❓ . John Egan from Templenoe, Co Kerry, finally figured out how his bull was getting out 😂
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3 years
'Hand over the nuts'🧐 📸Orla Lenehan
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6 years
If only they all delivered that easy...
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2 years
Minister Hackett has suggested the possibility of livestock farmers buying horses instead of cattle to reduce emissions. What do you think?
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3 years
Happy #Easter How cute is five-year-old Ted O’Callaghan from Co Cavan with his Blacknose Valais-cross lamb📸
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6 years
How many bales can you see? Bales as far as the eye can see on Kelly family farm in Athy, Co Kildare. #Harvest18 Photo: Claire Jeanne Nash.
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4 years
Phil Hogan resigns as Commissioner for Trade - in a single week Irish farmers have lost the Minister for Agriculture and the influential Commissioner for Trade with Brexit and CAP reform hurtling towards them. Read the latest inside this week's @farmersjournal on sale now.
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'It is a beauty to behold, when you see the purple and gold' 💜 💛 . Wexford contractor Tom Horan baling purple and gold bales for John O'Sullivan of Kilmuckridge, ahead of the All-Ireland hurling semi-final against Tipperary. If that's not dedication, what is 😅 @OfficialWexGAA
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That time of year again for some happy cows! Thanks to Brendan O'Neill who has just let the cows out to grass for the first time this year. #grass18 #grazing18
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3 years
Laois native and Teagasc dairy specialist, George Ramsbottom, has become the 72nd Agricultural Science Association president.
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Waiting for the last ewe of the season to drop 🐑 #Lambing2021 @FJSheep #BernieSanders
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Bank Holiday weekend sunbathing🌞 Cows and calves enjoying the good weather on Ballyvaughan beach, Co Clare 📸 Donal Monaghan #readerpictures
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Sheepdogs Peggy, Bridie and Rosie working from home, watching the first lamb of the season pass by🐑 . 📸 Bernie Tennyson, Thomastown Co Kilkenny #farmingfightsback #covid19
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Over 1,300 farmers will attend the @farmersjournal 's #beefsummit in Ballinasloe, Co. Galway tonight. This 2-minute video explains why the beef industry is so important to rural Ireland with 52,000 jobs at risk is nothing is done to protect it. @rtenews @VirginMediaNews @ajwwoods
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83 year old farmer Michael Flood from Emyvale Co Monaghan taking a break in the evening sun to watch his silage getting baled 👌
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Unlikely friends? Check out the calf and cat having a cuddle 😍 . Credit: Milford Dairy Farm Limerick 😋
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Our headline speaker at the #AgriCareers Expo on February 14, Pat McDonagh of @SupermacsIRE has just won a landmark case against global giants McDonalds. Click the link to register for FREE -
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3 years
'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer' A very unusual picture sent into us by Denise Murray, she took the picture on her farm in Coolarne, Co Galway📸
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4 years
The @farmersjournal now has 295,900 weekly readers on the island of Ireland. This is the highest readership figure reported by the newspaper in the past 20 years! Thank you to all our loyal readers across print and digital.
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Anthony Murphy was “gobsmacked” on Tuesday night of this week when he discovered a never-seen-before giant henge monument in the Boyne Valley not far from Newgrange.
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4 years
Brexit countdown: This is the week the UK leaves the EU and the @farmersjournal will each day explore the issues of what it is likely to mean for farmers. With expert commentary and analysis, we'll have all you need to know on #Brexit
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The cat that got the cream. The resident stray cat on Eamon Sheehan’s farm tries to reap the rewards of the early calvers in the milking parlour in Cuffesgrange, Kilkenny.
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Pedigree Limousin Orphie was having none of Storm Dennis and decided to take shelter instead👇 Credit: Marisa Byrnes, Tipperary📸 #StormDennis
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When the boss comes back home👏 The animals were delighted to see their owner, Dick Brennan from Castlecomer, home after a hip replacement📸 Eileen Dormer
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Best Friends 😍 📸Credit to a Snapchat reader who sent this in. #EasterMonday
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Emma Rose Galvin from Finuge, Co Kerry, has had to make some new friends due to #COVID2019 #SocialDistancing 🐄 Happy #StPatricksDay2020 🍀👏🏻
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This lamb is practicing its balancing for #IrelandsFittestFamily 2021 😂👏🏻 Credit to Declan Miley from Co Roscommon who sent us this video 🎥 @FJSheep #lambing2021 #IrelandsFittestFamily
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Don't miss your FREE 96-page Ploughing 2019 magazine inside this week's @farmersjournal ! It contains everything you need to know including a detailed site map, exhibitor listings, event programmes and directions on how to get there and where to park! #Ploughing19 #thisisfarming
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The first female deputy president Alice Doyle speaks to the Irish Farmers Journal after her historic win. #IFAelection23 @IFAmedia
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'Will you bring me back some bread and milk, I want to be prepared for the snow?'❄️ 📸Michael Fortune #sneachta
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An iconic photo of silage contractors sitting down for a social distance dinner at Lar and John French's farm in Adamstown, Co Wexford🚜 . 📸Anne French #covid19 #lockdown2020 #silage2020
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are being introduced to the Derrypatrick herd at @teagasc Grange #RoyalVisitIreland
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Prepare to have your heart melted💜 . Two-year-old Dearbhla Fennelly from Co Kilkenny singing ‘twinkle-twinkle💫’ to the animals👏🏻
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Flooding continues to hit #Ploughing17 site
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Lawmakers in Rome voted to ban lab-grown meat, making Italy the first country in the world to outlaw such proteins. This comes just as Beyond Meat launches their own fake pepperoni.
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The @NolanTransport trucks with fodder from the UK for @DairygoldCo_Op members have arrived at the depot in New Ross
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Clare farmer Jim Cronin, has been named this year's Farming for Nature winner beating off stiff competition from around the country. @farmfornature
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Trailing shoe 👞 😂 Will you be purchasing 🧐
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The University of Oxford found that even treated sewage has a stronger impact on water quality than pollution from agriculture. See the full Oxford results on water quality below.
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This Monday 3rd February the Irish Farmers Journal will hold a live farming debate at 7.30pm. You can tune in by clicking the link below. We spoke to farmers in Cork and asked what they are looking for from a new government #GE2020
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Leitrim suckler farmer Karen McCabe demonstrates how to make a St Brigid's Day cross. "I am pretty sure everywhere has rushes, they are probably something Leitrim could export at this stage." @LadyHaywire #StBrigidsDay
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Need a reason to smile today❓ . Here are six-week-old puppies in the process of being weaned 👇🎥Maura Fay #NationalPuppyDay
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When your lot is last to come into the ring ☝️ #BernieSanders
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“Day 17 of isolation, they still think I’m one of them”😂👇 . 🎥 Joseph Rowlette, Co Sligo #laughoftheday #Covid_19
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"An Taisce would barely have registered on the consciousness of most farmers, myself included, until relatively recently."
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Best seat in the house. http://t.co/YjOHEdVe5f
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BREAKING: Pig farmers are holding their second protest in less than a week to highlight low prices and imported produce in @SuperValuIRL with @IFAmedia
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Last day of sixth year vibes🤠🚜 Peadar, Ryan and Shane from Ramsgrange Community School in Co Wexford drove their tractors into school to mark their final day in sixth year🚜 Best of luck in the Leaving Cert from the @farmersjournal 👍
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Today is #WorldMilkDay 🥛 Thank a farmer when you are putting milk in your tea, or on your cereal this morning☕️ @NDC_ie @FJDairy
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Today is #NationalPotatoDay 🥔 Remember to thank a farmer for all their hard work 👏 @FJTillage
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‘He would drink it off a sore leg’ . . 🥛 Vanessa McCabe sent us this video of her dog Kai drinking the profits on the farm in Co Wexford🎥 #readervideo
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Are you looking for a new #COVID19 challenge❓ Why not head out to the lambing shed and give the “Social Dist-Dancing Jive Challenge” a go💃😅 The idea was launched by GetUp AndJive & Gràinne Gavigan Music👏🏻
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🚜🚜🚜 #farmerprotest in Berlin today sent in courtesy of an Irish farmer.
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This cat is cutting out the middle man and going straight to the source 🥛 Credit: 📸 Tim Mulcahy
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Michael Healy Rae speaking from the Beef Plan protest where he said in no uncertain terms that all Irish TDs should be opposed to the Mercosur trade deal
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Watch: The theme of the @farmersjournal 's stand at #ploughing19 is #thisisfarming and @philldoylephoto has produced a short video featuring some of the @farmersjournal & @IrishCountryLiv team who outline what farming means to them. Enjoy!
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Social Democrats agriculture spokesperson Holly Cairns @HollyCairnsTD standing in support of farmers in Skibbereen at IFA Day of Action.
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Love is in the air 💫 Sarah Condren of Castletown, Co Wexford, and James Irish of Glenmore, Co Kilkenny, who recently got married👏
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