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Alison Healy

Alison Healy

Food and Farming Correspondent

Alison Healy is the Food and Farming Correspondent at The Irish Times. She joined the newspaper in 2000 as a reporter. Previously she worked with The Irish Farmers’ Journal.

Tom Joe McManus, Drumshanbo, collecting fodder brought in from Brighton, England, and distributed to farmers affected by the fodder shortage, at Kiltoghert Co-Op, Co Leitrim on Wednesday. Photograph: Eric Luke
“The country is talking about nothing only Mick Wallace and nonsense like that while there are men in dire straits here”

Connacht Gold has imported more than 160 loads of fodder

Over 220 acres of grass cuttings from the airfield at Dublin Airport is being made available to farmers according to the Dublin Airport Authority.
Farm leaders want national effort to help with fodder shortage

Dublin Airport donating its grass to farmers

Farmer Eoin Brady with the six sheep that were shot dead in Co Wicklow. Photograph: Garry O’Neill
Trained marksman suspected in sheep killings

Sheep ‘were all shot in the heart, lung region with a high-powered rifle’

Fianna Fáil agriculture spokesman Éamon Ó Cuív said the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture found itself in a “farcical situation” in relation to the proposed sale of Coillte’s harvesting rights. Photograph Brenda Fitzsimons
Sale of Coillte tree-harvesting rights would raise ‘a few grains of sand in a desert of debt’, committee told

Decision on proposed sale expected next week

Members of the IFA protesting on Kildare St in October 2012 during their day of action which raised the issue of falling farm incomes. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
Average farm income was €25,483 last year, Teagasc survey finds

Almost 20 per cent of farms have income less than €5,000, although huge variation across sector

George Boland photographed in Dublin while on tour with the Irish Elderly Advice Network as part of The Gathering. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Irish man recounts horrors of six years of servitude

Westmeath man kept captive by Irish Travellers in UK

A group from the Irish Elderly Advice Network photographed at Cassidy’s Hotel Parnell Square after arriving in Dublin for the Gathering. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
A gathering of Irish emigrants ready to see Dublin in a new light

Group will meet President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Enda Kenny during their visit

Dan Grubert, chief executive of the Celtic Worm Company Ltd, with some tiger worms at his farm in the Borlin valley, West Cork. Photograph: Niall Duffy
How to make money from mounds of farm manure

40 farm families involved in project that uses worms to create enriched compost

New Macra na Feírme president Kieran O’Dowd told the rural youth organisation’s AGM in Cork that 7 per cent of farmers in Germany were over 65 while in France, 13 per cent were
New young farmers’ leader says older age profile of farmers is ‘unbelievable’

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