Help rural Ireland flourish by tweaking rules Clarkson’s Law-style to encourage farm diversification
Tax and planning rules applying to farmers need to be re-examined – and we shouldn’t need someone like Jeremy Clarkson to spark our politicians into action
Prompting change: TV presenter and farmer Jeremy Clarkson on his farm in the Cotswolds
Hannah Quinn-Mulligan
Bees have always held a fascination for me: independent, matriarchal and vicious if disturbed, they seemed like the perfect addition to our farm.
More Comment
Angus Woods: IFA Presidential Election revamp is needed to eradicate big-county advantage
-
Richard Hackett: Schemes would be dead in the water without advisors
-
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
-
Conor Skehan: EU’s Nature Restoration Law must make room for humans too
-
Angus Woods: Farm orgs’ policy void is being filled by more capable lobbyists – and farmers will lose out
-
Help rural Ireland flourish by tweaking rules Clarkson’s Law-style to encourage farm diversification
-
John Downing: Ministers stuck between bog and a hard place in 330,000-hectare rewetting scheme
Most Read
-
I have been running my elderly bachelor neighbours’ farm for years and they signed a letter leaving it to me. But now their nephew is back and says he is taking over. Where do I stand?
-
Why Charlie McConalogue is the farmers’ darling as he fights demands for herd reduction
Three men guilty of taking part in sustained and brutal attack in Strokestown repossession case
-
A convicted fraudster, 40 cousins — and a will that’s worth millions
LATEST | Girl (17) who died in tragic tractor crash named locally as community 'in shock'
-
Rural TD accuses Hackett of privacy breach, despite previous boast as ‘proud’ organic farmer
-
Revealed: €600m budget needed to cull 65,000 cows every year for three years to meet climate goals
-
Robin Talbot: What to do if you’re short of first-cut silage
-
Richard Hackett: Schemes would be dead in the water without advisors
Young Farmers Capital Investment Scheme under TAMS 3 opens with 60% grant rate
