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 ...

Sheep is the only sector with an improved outlook for 2026, with all others facing mixed prospects, according to Teagasc.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By now a whole generation of Irish Times readers is no doubt asking, “What’s a Jacobs Award?”. This requires a detailed ...

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 ...

Irish farmer Declan Brennan has found the most unlikely kind of sheepdog – a drone. Brennan operated a Yuneec Q500 drone to herd his flock of sheep at Herondale, his Carlow, Ireland farm. In a YouTube ...

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 ...

The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) chairman Sean Dennehy has said the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) needs to come to its senses to not damage the sheep sector. Dennehy said ...

Before you ask: Yes, sheep farmer Mikey Joe O'Shea is speaking English in the interview below, and no, you almost certainly won't be able to understand any of it. The internet can barely understand it ...