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The country's fruit and vegetable producers are calling for more support from retailers and the Government to address an alarming decline in the number of commercial growers in recent decades.

Micheál Martin says ‘partisan’ push for Border poll since Brexit vote has concerned him

Kilkenny runner hoping to make Irish mark on elite men’s race for first time in decades

Micheál Martin to bring proposals to Cabinet to set up body to examine issues around reunification

Foodstuffs played a central role in Ireland’s Samhain tradition − although not always for eating

Group’s profits after tax rose above €5 million after receiving almost the same in dividends from subsidiaries

Former Irish jumps jockey turned trainer Shane Jackson and his stable star King Snitz are taking on the behemoth stables of Ciaron Maher, Chris Waller and Gai Waterhouse in the Victoria Derby.

The alternatives he now faces involve one or more retreats on solemn election commitments

The alternatives he now faces involve one or more retreats on solemn election commitments

The Government has adopted an increasingly incrementalist approach both to the problem and to the optics surrounding it

Siobhán no longer seems to be an issue, but attentions have turned to Caoimhe

Retailer operates 71 stores across the State and a large distribution centre in Clonee

Multinational exports drive healthy growth numbers

BBC One's The Celebrity Traitors will reveal tonight whether comedian Joanne McNally or actress Sharon Rooney will be banished after last week's cliffhanger left their fates hanging in the balance.

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Tom Dillon took an American Halloween tradition back home with him to Co Meath

Fishing free-for-all almost wiped out Atlantic bluefin tuna but conservation efforts have it thriving again

Family events, appointments, calendars and support systems are all coordinated in a single app to free up time for hard-pressed parents, carers and homemakers

A new initiative is required to challenge all traditions to engage with "hard evidence" on different constitutional frameworks around unity, the Taoiseach has said.

‘Whole of government’ approach helped put an end to the belief that rural policy was an adjunct to agricultural policy

The country has been caught in a doom loop for the past decade

Micheál Martin lays out how he believes the unity agenda could be advanced, something he has been reluctant to do in the past

Justice spokesman Matt Carthy says fewer naturalisations would likely occur under his party’s system

More than 80 league places separate the Premier League champions and Fleetwood Town, who are a sister club of Waterford FC

Social media company’s staff costs fell by 10% last year while pay to three Irish-based directors rose 12% to top €900,000

Questionable whether majority of public would want to see North incorporated into Republic of Ireland

Thinking players keep ball alive, accept uncomfortable offload and do not take the ground as their only option

Regulation should raise the bar, not lower it

Genuity Science, formerly Genomics Medicine, increased profits by 24%

As Marbella shifts from a sellers’ market towards a buyers’ market, informed Irish buyers are finding quality and value, provided they are ready to act

The scheme is of most value for children from disadvantaged backgrounds

The winning student movement is similar to others in Hungary and Albania

Just €2.9m of about €13.8m collected in fees returned to performers, artists’ group says

Patient in France died from the first reported human case

Alexander Murphy a suivi pendant plusieurs années une famille d’Irlandais qui a choisi de vivre en mobile home, au risque de se retrouver marginalisée.

The revised Irish bar plans include a smaller gaming area after earlier rejection.

Private-equity-backed ‘no-frills’ fitness clubs previously considered expansion into Ireland but pulled back after Brexit vote

Dr Connor Green was focus of reports related to care of children with scoliosis and spina bifida

Customers have complained that stores are not displaying what they will be charged for bags

European Parliament employee says border guards told him ‘they see Ireland as like an anti-Israel country’

The lack of rights of way along many field edges, which are everywhere in other countries, is chilling

The implication of the negative response to the Dublin Rape Crisis Cente video is that adults’ rights triumph over children’s

Defying ‘unnecessary’ barriers, services trade between the Republic and Northern Ireland has bloomed into a €4.2bn relationship

Emails show ESB Networks worried draft law to boost European manufacturing will raise infrastructure costs

Amid the rise of ‘smart glasses’, some Irish businesses have begun to implement bans on wearing them on their premises

The documentary maker, whose new film is about the unlikely US communist, has become one of Ireland’s most reliable cinematic truth-tellers

At Visual in Carlow, the artist Niamh O’Malley uses a unique, site-specific material to project our desires back on us

The president made an extraordinary comeback, but now has much to do

Another review has been started, but it is surely time to decide

The success of You Can See Everything shows people are looking for something deeper

Micheal Sheehy says ‘Irish people are really good at calling out bulls**t and in American corporate life there is a ton of it’

NAZA lays bare the horror of AI-enhanced war but there is a glimmer of hope

Take a walk on the witchy side this Halloween with these spooky places to visit around Ireland

The single is the second posthumous release from Parton - who was of Welsh descent.

Disruptions to the supply of grain, fertiliser and energy threaten to take a heavy toll

Meta’s plans were greeted nervously and this is an important signal

Team Ireland have the opportunity to add two golds to their six-medal haul on Tuesday

Published 50 years ago this week, Breandán Ó hEithir loosely based Lig Sinn I gCathú on his own college experiences

Troy Parrott squanders late chance for Betis, Owen Elding scores against Celtic and Jimmy Dunne nets QPR brace