Three Irish sheep sisters recently gave birth to a total of 11 lambs, including quintuplets, in what is being described as a farming miracle. The sheep, from Holland Sheep Farm in County Cork, gave ...

A 62-year-old Irish sheep farmer who lives in the Dublin mountains has garnered 3.9 million views on his haircut video on Facebook. "It just needed to be done," Donie Anderson says before taking sheep ...

If lamb served in Ireland is Irish, then say so clearly on the menu. If it is imported New Zealand lamb arriving in chilled ...

In Ireland, sheep may rule the hillsides, but it’s the dogs that truly run the show. Generations of Joyce family farmers in Connemara have relied on border collies to herd sheep with skill, speed, and ...

Teamwork, precision and a keen eye for stray sheep was the aim of the game this week in Lisbrock, Brideswell, Co Roscommon for the 2025 Irish National Sheep Dog Trials. The three-day event, which ...

Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine announced this week that electronic identification for Irish sheep would become mandatory, producing a divided opinion among the Republic’s ...

LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Sheep farmers in Britain and Ireland fear for their future as oversupply of lamb in Europe drags farm-gate prices to three-year lows while production costs soar, giving ...

Murphy told the Guardian he didn’t notice the animal’s peculiarities the night of its birth late last month. In the light of day, it was clear something different had landed at his farm in County ...

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‘Factory managers appear to have little interest in next week, next month or the next six months; and that’s no way to run a business long term,’ says farmer-cum-agent Nigel Stoddart Sheep farmer and ...