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Farmers would still prefer to see Simon Coveney as Taoiseach, despite him losing out in the Fine Gael leadership contest.

Most farmers believe the Government should increase spending in next month’s Budget rather than cut taxes.

An opinion poll finding that just 42% of farmers have a private pension scheme is linked to the volatility of the sector and needs to be tackled by Government, according to one of the country’s largest farming organisations.

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said he has never heard of a global shortage of pilots but according to Boeing’s latest outlook report, the industry needs more than 600,000 pilots to meet “extraordinary” demands over the next 20 years.

Two more areas have been designated rent pressure zones as part of rolling rental sector reforms announced by the housing minister.

A high-flying executive in one of the world’s largest companies touched down in his home town yesterday to donate €50,000 to a school, putting it on track to become the fittest school in Ireland.

Embattled Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has a knack for finding his way out of a jam.

The threat posed by Brexit is driving the view that Ireland needs a specific ministry to deal with it, says the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA).

THE coach pulled up at Market Square, and as the grey-haired tourists in chinos, shades, and windbreakers disembarked, they were greeted by a sunlit view across Youghal harbour to a finger of land reaching out towards them from neighbouring county Waterford.

A judge who heard days of evidence about bad blood between neighbours over a house extension said the two parties were very foolish but only one was before the court.

Ryanair has offered its pilots bonuses of up to €12,000 to buy back their leave and reduce the number of flights it has to cancel.

A weekly rise of €5 in State pensions; a reversal of cuts made in 2012; and an increase in home help hours are among the demands being made on behalf of older people by Age Action.

Resolute parents who were once told to lock their baby boy in a room and forget about him after he was diagnosed with autism, are now determined to establish specific services for their adult son.

Irish Air Corps concerns about the impact on helicopter safety of a proposed incinerator in Co Cork can be ameliorated if the company behind the application can guarantee it will contain any risk from the plume to within 150m of the stack.

Most Irish consumers are in the dark about early exit penalty fees on essential household contracts, and it could be costing them dearly.

Ryan Hamilton Black’s superpowers do not allow him to generate unlimited amounts of energy, travel through time and space, or manipulate matter on a subatomic level.

The celebrities who strutted their stuff on the opening day of the national ploughing championships in Screggan, Tullamore, yesterday had plenty of competition from unexpected sources.

The Government is considering using the government jet to bring home Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa from Egypt when he is released from jail.

The Government still plans to merge the USC with PRSI and alter tax levels for low-and middle-income earners despite Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin warning there is not enough money to do both and that it breaches the minority government deal.

A consultant representing a company planning to develop a €3.5m salmon farm in Bantry Bay has told a reconvened oral hearing it will not have a detrimental impact on the general environment or wild fish stocks.

The Government has promised to pass divisive bills on alcohol sale restrictions and judicial reforms before the end of this Dáil term amid ongoing claims parliament has become hamstrung by the minority government stalemate.

A motorist wrongly convicted following the fixed-charge notice scandal was imprisoned, banned from driving for five years, and forced to emigrate to find work as a result.

A top ploughman died in a farm accident in Wexford yesterday as some of his family were at the National Ploughing Championships in Offaly.

More than half of farmers want a Brexit minister and do not believe the Government is doing enough to prepare for the UK’s exit from the EU.

Build more social and affordable housing, the Simon Communities in Ireland has told the Government.

The positive effects of the economic recovery may finally be finding its way into rural areas with fewer people disagreeing that it has benefitted them and their family.

The Government has stressed that “all means under the law will be availed of to protect the security of the state” as a new poll found that fewer than half of people living in rural Ireland believe sufficient safeguards have been put in place against a possible terror attack.

The Department of Education has saved close to €230m since 2011 by putting new entrants to teaching on lower pay than their colleagues.

High cholesterol could affect a body’s ability to fight cancer as well as increasing the risk of a heart attack or stroke, it has emerged.

Planning permissions for new homes are soaring, with a 42% rise reported in the year to June and houses accounting for the vast majority of those granted.