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Motorists endure tough driving conditions as rain lashes Limerick

MOTORISTS are being warned to expect tough driving conditions this Friday as rain lashes through Limerick. Downpours began falling across the city and county from early morning, with the April showers proving difficult for commuters. Commuters on ...

06 Apr 2018 at 10:20

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Fodder crisis: ‘I didn’t sleep for 48 hours’ reveals Limerick farmer

TO PARAPHRASE the words of Gerry Adams, the fodder crisis “hasn’t gone away you know”. While the national media spotlight has disappeared, locals across County Limerick continue to struggle. The situation was beginning to improve after the few ...

19 Apr 2018 at 15:00

Farming

Fodder crisis: Shannon Airport to cut silage for Limerick farmers

SHANNON Airport has pledged its support to farmers battling the current fodder crisis by offering to repeat its intervention of 2013 when it harvested silage from its 400 acre site. The airport’s operations team will meet with farm ...

10 Apr 2018 at 19:02

Farming

Limerick farmers at wits’ end over lengthy winter

IT’S AN ILL east wind that blows no good and all week farmers from east and west Limerick have been queuing up for imported fodder. There is something very sick as this is the second time in five years that the winter came early ...

13 Apr 2018 at 06:00

Farming

WATCH: Shannon Airport's silage cutting a 'Godsend' for Limerick farmers

THE HARVESTING of up to 1,000 silage bales began at Shannon Airport this Friday to help farmers in the midst of the fodder crisis. IFA president Joe Healy described it as a “godsend”. Contractors rolled onto the 400 acre ...

20 Apr 2018 at 18:09

Farming

Phones 'hopping' as Limerick farmers look for fodder

TWO loads of UK fodder that arrived in Dairygold’s Cappamore store on Thursday evening was loaded and gone in minutes. A third load is due in this Friday. Con Berkery, manager of Dairygold co-op Cappamore, said the ...

06 Apr 2018 at 10:53

Farming

WATCH: Shannon Airport flies to the aid of Limerick farmers battling fodder crisis

“I DIDN’T actually stop for breakfast yet,” says a remarkably jovial Peter Thompson. The time is 12.15pm on Tuesday. The farmer milked his cows that morning and let them out to grass. But he had to move quickly to ...

26 Apr 2018 at 11:53

Farming

A quarter of Limerick farmers don’t have enough fodder

A SURVEY of 364 Teagasc clients, carried out during January, showed that 27% of farmers don’t have sufficient feed to meet their livestock’s requirements until the planned end of the winter housing period. Of ...

11 Feb 2019 at 15:00

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Limerick farmers urged ‘not to suffer in silence’ with health and wellbeing of concern

LIMERICK farmers were urged “not to suffer in silence” at a specially organised drought and fodder meeting in Boher. Farmers’ health and wellbeing is of concern said Majella Moloney, Limerick/KerryTeagasc ...

27 Jul 2018 at 19:00

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