Given the official recognition of a number of producer organisations (POs) in Ireland of late, how did these groups come ...

A journey through the Emerald Isles is a must for any road trip-loving Kiwi, but what really awaits you on an Irish road trip? Nicola Lamb finds out. Anyone thinking of having a wander around Ireland ...

You know what they say: where there’s livestock, there’s dead stock,” says Jack (a brilliant Barry Keoghan). Never a truer word. There’s an awful lot of dead and maimed stock – sheep, to be precise - ...

I’ve heard mixed reports. It’s not actually that sexy. It’s kind of boring. The milk scene made someone feel sick. I didn’t ...

The debut feature from filmmaker Christopher Andrews, Bring Them Down, is an unsettling movie about miserable people. But the ...

Bring Them Down’s spiral into catastrophic violence begins with a broken bridge – two broken bridges, in fact. One is made of ...

has deciphered the prehistoric cultural trajectory of this species by analysing 118 genomes recovered from archaeological bones dating across 12 millennia and stretching from Mongolia to Ireland. The ...

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fuelled ...

From domestication to the use of milk and wool to cultural and economic developments, sheep have played a central role in the evolution of human societies. Without livestock like sheep, as well as ...