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FBD's purchase puts Malahide on the hit list
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FBD Hotels and Resorts has purchased the Grand Hotel in Malahide for €55m.
FBD's purchase puts Malahide on the hit list
How long can high prices last?
22 January 2025 Dealer
How long can high prices last?
While current cattle and sheep prices are exactly what is needed to provide a decent income for drystock farmers, can they be sustained?
Clarkson back
22 January 2025 Dealer
Clarkson back
Organisers of Cereals 2026 are expecting upwards of 25,000 visitors call to Diddly Squat farm for the event.
Tirlán makes changes to its bonus system for suppliers
Tirlán have moved away from the system that made a trading loyalty bonus payment on milk, something I neglected to mention last week.
22 January 2025 Dealer
Conway and Connelly sign on for Hometree
Conway and Connelly are two significant additions to the Hometree team and will give the organisation far greater kudos in the forestry sector, and with landowners and farmers.
22 January 2025 Dealer
Does a happy farm make for a happy marriage?
Bryan and Deirdre Hynes said getting the correct work-life balance had become an important consideration in their farming business.
22 January 2025 Dealer
Tillage vision group to meet again
The Dealer has heard that the Food Vision Tillage Group is to meet again to discuss progress on the report.
16 January 2025 Dealer
Real anger, but few solutions in Cork
A new generation of dairy farmers are questioning whether they have any debt of loyalty to their co-op, and whether their co-op has shown enough loyalty to them.
15 January 2025 Dealer
McGrath makes Carrigaline
It's not every day that a European Commissioner attends an IFA dinner dance.
15 January 2025 Dealer
Farmers at the Iftas
I spotted an interesting title, ‘Farmers!?’, nominated in the live-action short film category at the Iftas.
15 January 2025 Dealer
Predator trapper job vacancy
The invasive species control officer will have to trap feral mink, grey crows, magpies and to control foxes in the middle Shannon Callows, downstream of the bridge at Banagher.
15 January 2025 Dealer
Irish team for 'Meat Olympics'
The World Butchers’ Challenge (WBC) is touted as ‘The Greatest Butchery Event on Earth’ and a six-person team will be flying the flag in Paris for the Emerald Isle.
8 January 2025 Dealer