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Curious about the Farming for Water EIP? 🚜💧 Project Lead Mairead Whitty answers your top questions! Learn more 👉 farmingforwater.ie/faqs #FarmingForWater @DairyIndustryIE @teagasc

Targeted actions for water quality - find out more in this take-home message article in the latest issue of #TResearch here bit.ly/4btARaw.

Tonight, we visit a Limerick butcher and farmer, join Kerry dairy farmers improving water quality, and explore a sea eagle conservation project in Munster. #EarToTheGround | Tonight at 7pm

🏆 Congratulations to Ballycumber Tidy Towns who claimed top prize in the Water Heritage Award category at today's @HeritageWeek Awards. The group's inclusive art workshops, called 'Folly Tales and Treasure Trails', proved a hit for children of all ages and abilities. 👏 🎨

John and Brendan Walsh from Ballylooby, Co. Tipperary are the Overall Winners of the Teagasc @fbd_ie Environmental Sustainability Awards 2024. Watch this short clip to find out more or read more here bit.ly/3XJEySO #EnvironmentAwards @TeagascSignpost

LAWPRO’s Community Water Development Fund 2025 is now open for applications🙌 We are hosting a funding clinic online this Friday the 27th of September at 11am through Zoom⬇️ Register to attend here: tinyurl.com/ppen3nhv Link to grants portal: tinyurl.com/mr3eb8sc

Mary Roache spoke to Patrick Gowing, Dairy Specialist at the Teagasc stand at #Ploughing2024 to find out more about the scale model dairy farmyard demonstrating how good farmyard design will solve a lot of problems, whether it’s from a water quality or a labour point of view.

I’m proud to announce that the National Parks & Wildlife Service and Coillte have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding for greater partnership and collaboration on restoring nature at scale in Ireland. @coilltenews

Delighted hear about Ireland Water Action Plan .. especially around a national management plan for invasive species and the long awaited final legislation .. @noonan_malcolm @WatersProgramme 👏.. all our river banks are just heaving with Himalayan Balsam Impatiens glandulifera

💧Ireland's Water Action Plan & LAWPRO's Community Water Development Fund for 2025 were launched today by Minister Noonan & Minister O'Gorman at the River Nore in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny. Read full press release here: lawaters.ie/press-release-… #RBMP

All set for the Farming for Water event at Castleisland, County Kerry today are Terry O'Mahony and Caoilfhionn Dodd from Kerry Agri, pictured alongside Mairead Shore of the Farming for Water team. @teagasc @agriculture_ie @DeptHousingIRL @IFAmedia

📸Lough Ree photo taken by Lee Williamson from Longford scoops top prize in National Photography Competition! Runners up in LAWPRO’s ‘My Favourite Waterbody’ competition are Jimmy O’Neill, Marie Melvin, John Collins and Dalia Guzauskaite👏 Press Release: tinyurl.com/52bmenrb

Catchment Scientist Joan Martin @LAWPRO +David Webster Sustainability Advisor @TeagascACP examined "Farming for Water" EIP on the farm of David Fay plus @IFAmedia Rural Development Chair John Curran. "Targeted Voluntary measures with good management yielding positive results"

"If anything, we need to double down and amplify our efforts. But it doesn't have to mean huge change or investment either". John Curran of the IFA said. eu1.hubs.ly/H09K5Nw0

"I see these places as little fragments of hope" 🤍 #Birdsong | Sunday at 6.30pm

Great to see people taking some time out from their morning walk to scan the QR codes on our Blue dot signs to learn all about our best rivers @BlueDotWaters @WatersProgramme @maoltuile #camcor

Last one promise, the Aurora at Lough Ennell taken from Lilliput.. #NorthernLights

Using the #Merlin bird sound ID App at Our Lady's Island #Wexford #Stonechat

The five year Pearl Mussel Project ended in December 2023. On behalf of the PMP team & our many partners, we would like to extend thanks to all participating farmers for their involvement with project over the last 5 years. We couldn’t have done it without you & your committment!

Trace 4 of Lough Carra catchment is underway. We injected 3 non-toxic dyes into the groundwater system. An intensive monitoring program with over 30 monitoring sites is underway, to see where the dyes re-emerge. Video thanks to Pádraig of @LoughCarraLife @GeolSurvIE