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IFA Deputy President Alice Doyle, on the Farm of Fergal O Sullivan in Offaly, Discussion on issues including, Nitrate Derogation, inspections, costs and climate Irish Farmers' Association

Paul is not only a wonderfully authentic poet, but a Champion of Poets on this platform. It was a privilege to be entrusted not only with his poetry, but with his story. This collection has huge emotional impact. ♥️💔♥️

Welcome crew to another #PromptCombo as host I'm going with #FeatheredFriends Curious creatures of symbol,song &myth It's all about the birds this wk🕊Post your poems⬇️ tag as many people as you wish Tnx Muinteoir nò Feirmeoir  for last wk Ronnie Smith Paul Brookes Matt Guntrip Liam Flanagan 🇺🇦🇵🇸

Fidel Walsh Muinteoir nò Feirmeoir Ronnie Smith Matt Guntrip Liam Flanagan 🇺🇦🇵🇸 Anna O Laoghaire Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen Julian Cason Colette M. Theresa Donnelly Jane stands with the planet. The rest is optional Sue Ibrahim Simcha Lebovitch Debbie Ross Helen Laycock, Writer ✍ Hi Fidel, hope you have plenty of feathers offered this week for #promptcombo #featheredfriends here's the first of mine: M

Longford Irish Farmers' Association Chair John Sheridan & Co Officer Mervyn Waters met with Finance Minister, Jack Chambers, in Ballinamuck this morning, as part of a Pre-Burget event, good opportunity to reinforce the detailed IFA Budget Submission + local issues with the Minister & Joe Flaherty TD

Neill McCormack Chair of Irish Farmers' Association Fruit &Veg Committee hosted onfarm meeting with Minister Peter Burke &a number of local Politicians highlighting ongoing issues with the Seasonal Work Permit Scheme &excessive costs in the sector. Also attended by IFA President Francie Gorman

Fidel Walsh Muinteoir nò Feirmeoir Paul Brookes Matt Guntrip Liam Flanagan 🇺🇦🇵🇸 Anna O Laoghaire Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen Julian Cason Colette M. Theresa Donnelly Jane stands with the planet. The rest is optional Sue Ibrahim Simcha Lebovitch Debbie Ross Helen Laycock, Writer ✍ Hi Fidel. #PromptCombo Thank you so much for this wonderful prompt #FeatheredFriends . I am surrounded by trees where I live and so I am surrounded by birds. However today, a reminiscence.

But yeah...those pesky teachers need to be upskilling in their own time-they don't do that, make them do it; it'll look great in the election. #edchatie

This is the fourth poem in the #featheredfriends #promptcombo for Fidel Walsh wish to share "My Caladrius" from out of print, "Stubborn Sod," Alien Buddha Press, 2017, a collaboration with genius artist Marcel Herms

“Milk is going into every supermarket and household, so it’s important that the next generation sees where it comes from” - John Macnamara, #IrishDairy farmer and winner of 2023 NDC & Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards 🥛🏆 #FromTheGroundUp #MadeForThis

This is the fifth poem in the #featheredfriends #promptcombo for Fidel Walsh

Thankyou Fidel for last week's great #promptcombo. All are welcome to contribute. Use hashtags #promptcombo #TheContrary Muinteoir nò Feirmeoir, Fidel Walsh, @mjdougherty33, @Lflanagan, @kathysholtys, Theresa Donnelly, Liam Flanagan 🇺🇦🇵🇸, Ronnie Smith Debbie Ross, Eileen Carney Hulme

As the National Ploughing Championships get underway today, we are looking at Heaney’s poem, ‘Follower' from his first collection in 1966. In this first section of the poem, Heaney celebrates his father's expertise and describes the process of ploughing a field. #Ploughing24

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The pure joy of a young farmer at the Ploughing #nofarmersnofood #farmingfuture

The only thing that can upend a perfectly planned lesson more than a wasp flying into the room is when his extended family arrives to check up on him. 🐝🐝🐝 #EdChatIE

Fact !!

Muinteoir nò Feirmeoir Fidel Walsh Jane stands with the planet. The rest is optional LFlanagan Kathy Sholtys Theresa Donnelly Liam Flanagan 🇺🇦🇵🇸 Ronnie Smith Debbie Ross Eileen Carney Hulme Those last two lines are brilliant, Anne, and the opening, too. Reminds me of Eliot in The Four Quartets using gates as portals into memory.