Farming

The successful Killoughey 2026 Macra Know Your Agriculture competition receiving their Cup and plaques from Macra President Josephine O'Neill. P.J. Bracken, Oisin Kilmartin, Diarmuid Bracken and Richard Casey. Also in the photo representing the sponsors, Irish Farmers Journal, news correspondent Pat O'Toole

Club from Offaly tops at Macra national convention

Glenisk is based just outside Killeigh

Offaly organic dairy brand Glenisk achieves B Corp Certification

Calling all Offaly farmers: Discover how forestry can add value

Pat O'Brien, Offaly ICMSA chairman

Offaly farmers urged to 'identify' contractors cutting back hedges

Pippa and Mark Hackett from Geashill

Offaly organic farmers honoured as Farming For Nature Ambassadors

Payments totalling €14.56 million to over 2,500 Offaly farmers begin

Ronan Scully, Self Help Africa with NPA Managing Director, Anna May McHugh at the Ploughing in Screggan last week

Final call for Tullamore mart fundraiser livestock sale

Finlay Russel, Emma Holman, Bridget Lewis, Marielle Hvide and John Maher of Nofence at the National Ploughing Championship in Screggan,

New era for livestock farming highlighted at Ploughing in Offaly

The site for the National Ploughing Championships at Screggan is all set to welcome the hundreds of thousands who will descend on it

President Catherine Connolly to officially open Ploughing at 12 noon

The site for the National Ploughing Championships at Screggan is all set to welcome the hundreds of thousands who will descend on it

Offaly site converted into 'tented city' for Ploughing this week

Gerry Murphy, a sheep cand dairy farmer from county Mayo

'Faces from the Farm' exhibit at Ploughing in Offaly

A selection of photos from the National Ploughing launch

PICTURES: Excitement builds as Ploughing launched in Tullamore

Margaret Edgill of Mount Briscoe Organic Farm

Offaly farmer chosen as 'Farming for Nature' Ambassador

Offaly MEP: ‘Missing cows and UAE royals are argument for CAP reform'

HedgeRow Fest 2026 taking place this weekend in Offaly

Pictured is senior finalist Michael Ruddock with his daughter and junior finalist Aoife Ruddock

Countdown on for Brown Bread Baking at Ploughing in Offaly

Boland welcomes EU Commissioner to family farm in Offaly
President Boland's farm at the Island, Rahan is managed in partnership with his son Jamie and uses only natural and non-chemical fertilisers as part of its sustainable farming practices.
Ger Scully

WATCH: First look inside ahead of the National Ploughing Championships

Paul McLoughlin Director of Services Offaly County Council; Anna May McHugh NPA MD and Cllr Declan Harvey, Cathaoirleach of Offaly County Council on site at Screggan, Tullamore for the launch of this year’s National Ploughing Championships to be held 15th-17th September next.
Photo: Alf Harvey.

Offaly 'a natural home for an event of this scale ' - Harvey

Gillian Smyth winner of the photography competition

Women in agriculture and food production to be celebrated in Tullamore

Jolene Brennan of the Hairy Barber in Tullamore

Tullamore barber says people are the heartbeat of her business

Courses designed to help you take that next step

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Tullamore Show and FBD National Livestock Show Chairman John Keena

WATCH: The sights, sounds and stories from a packed Tullamore Show

Rare opportunity to secure one of Offaly's finest residential farms

Barry Cowen MEP, fourth from left, at the opening of the Fianna Fail marquee at last year's show

Offaly MEP stresses his focus for farming is on results

Offaly European chief welcomes EU Commissioner to family's farm

Offaly farmers incomes to fall due to cost pressures and price easing

Spollanstown is probably the sunniest place in Tullamore in the morning

Spollanstown: the 'Land of the Rising Sun' in Tullamore
This Saturday 11 July starting at 10 30am and finishing at 12 noon there is a tour of Spollanstown commencing at the front of the Tullamore Court Hotel
Michael Byrne

Patrick Carroll pictured at Limerick Circuit Court PICTURE: BRENDAN GLEESON

Breaking Offaly student jailed for causing deaths of his two college friends

New planning guidelines will protect rural Offaly community strengths

The Embrace FARM, Remembrance Service in the Church of the Most Holy Rosary, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois, Sunday 29th June

Offaly farm families encouraged to attend Embrace FARM Service

Bumper price of 25,000 per acre secured for farmland in Offaly

MEP Nina Carberry pictured with local ICMSA members following a meeting on the future CAP

Views of farmers in Offaly sought on new Common Agricultural Policy

Thomas Brereton.

Offaly farmers recall lives of hard work

EESC President Seamus Boland has an audience with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican earlier this year

From humble beginnings on a farm in Offaly to top position in Europe

Prestigious national award for leading Offaly family food firm

Tom Loonam.

BIG READ: 'Get big or get out,' Offaly farmer recalls a busy life

Organic walk in Offaly to focus on crop performance and soil health

FRS outside Roscrea has received funding for three schemes

Funding for Offaly farm safety project and Farm Relief Network schemes

'Stay safe' - ESB Networks urges contractors to exercise 'extreme caution' this summer

ESB Networks urges contractors to exercise 'stay safe' this summer

Pictured at the launch of the appeal in Tullamore Mart were (l. to r.) Myles Shorthall, James Kane, Chairman, Tullamore Mart, Ciara Tallant, Head of Fundraising and Public Engagement with Self Help Africa, Siobhan Conroy, Tullamore Credit Union, Pat Mahon, Ronan Scully, Cllr Neil Feighery and Aidan Shorthall

Calling all Offaly farmers to support a livestock appeal for Africa

Tullamore Show and FBD National Livestock Show celebrates 35 years of success

THE AGM of Tirlan was held this week

Tirlán paid out €19 million in milk payments to Offaly farm families in 2025

Farmers in Offaly to receive vital grant balancing payments this week

Margaret Edghill in the barn which she has converted into guest accommodation at Mount Briscoe

THE LONG READ: Offaly woman continues seven generations of nature friendly farmi...

Young handlers event returns to Tullamore Show with exciting new training show

MEP Barry Cowen speaking at the seminar on CAP's future

Increase in budget vital for CAP – Offaly MEP Barry Cowen...

Trade stand spots already filling up fast for this year's Ploughing in Offaly

'Worst thing I could ever imagine': Farmer reveals 13 lambs' necks 'deliberately broken'

'Worst thing I could ever imagine': Farmer reveals 13 lambs' necks 'deliberately...

Roscrea town centre - photo: D. Keegan

BREAKING: Gardaí investigate fatal incident at Midlands meat factory

'From seed to success': Tullamore Show & FBD National Livestock Show renew five ...

‘No longer a blessing’ – How Rwanda is coping with increased rainfall

Almost 300 Offaly farmers to benefit under Dairy Beef Welfare Scheme

ONGOING CONTROVERSY: Offaly councillors call for removal of Bord Bia Chairman

The late Ger Maher

RIP: Offaly community plunged into mourning after sudden death of young man

The late Ger Maher

Community on Offaly Tipperary border plunged into mourning after sudden death of...

A ploughman taking part in a competition.

30th South Offaly Ploughing Match to be held on Sunday next

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