Pippa Hackett

In the middle of the unimaginable, at a minor intersection in a rural Irish village, bewildering reality and a crushing sadness merged in memory of a (...)

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The Government is to scale up efforts to roll out carbon farming in Ireland, a key element of which is to capture greenhouse gases in soils. Carbon f(...)

One of the downsides of our annual festive splurge is the prospect of all those bills coming through the letterbox after Christmas. It’s the other wa(...)

Timing is everything. An email arrives on Friday afternoon from the office of Pippa Hackett, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, head(...)

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Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien is to seek Cabinet approval for a new homeless action committee amid “serious concern” over increases in the numb(...)

Pubs with live music will not be subjected to new guidelines around ticketing, it has emerged. The Government has defended new requirements which wou(...)

Supports for agriculture will total almost €10 billion with a 50 per cent increase in funding for “eco schemes” under a new Common Agricultural Policy(...)

On a corner of Falsk Bog in Co Offaly, on a breathless day with an unsparing sun, three figures stoop over a huge rectangle of neatly laid out sods. M(...)