Yorkshire native Laura Cable (26) manages a 130-cow farm just outside Clonakilty. Although she grew up on a beef and sheep farm, Laura’s heart is now in dairy. She talks to Mary O’Brien about how a young woman ends up managing a dairy farm single-handedly in West Cork. Laura manages […]
Young entrepreneur James Gale (22) based in Kinsale believes in aiming and achieving high. The creator of StampOwl and SwiftFox tells Mary O’Brien that he sees himself running a multi-million euro business and providing employment for a lot of people in ten years time. “I would like to help Elon […]
Seed saving is a labour of love for botanist Madeline McKeever and her daughter Holly Cairns who send their Brown Envelope organic vegetable seeds all over the world from their farm on the remote Turk Head peninsula near Skibbereen. Without seed we have no food. With a Master of Science […]
Farm partnerships can help to improve your work-life balance and develop your farm business, as Kilbrittain farmer Lawrence Sexton has learned through firsthand experience. Lawrence is part of a three-way partnership ‘LJG Dairy’ with two neighbours, John Hallissey and Guy Scott, milking over 400 crossbred cows, and rearing their followers […]
Local Enterprise Week 2019, a national initiative led by the Local Enterprise Offices across Ireland, commences on March 4 and runs until March 8. Throughout the week Cork County Council’s Local Enterprise Offices (LEO Cork North and West and LEO Cork South) have organised a number of business and training […]
The Dunmanway Branch of Comhaltas will host Fleadh Cheoil Chorcaí 2019 from April 26-28. Over 250 competitions will be held over the weekend, in both Maria Immaculata Community College and the Parkway Hotel, with competitions in music, singing and story-telling and comhrá gaeilge. Competitions are divided into age categories, […]
