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Fáilte Ireland, in partnership with the Connemara and Aran Islands Tourism Network (CAITN), has launched two innovative self-guided digital trails designed to attract more visitors to Connemara and encourage them to stay longer, explore deeper, and support local businesses.

Twenty years after introducing the black-headed Zwartbles sheep to Ireland, with their distinctive white blaze, an event will celebrate the anniversary in Galway this Sunday.

What was a green field site only a few weeks ago is now being transformed into a tented village and all preparations underway as the Tullamore Show and FBD National Livestock Show fast approaches.

A new initiative to form a wool co-operative to market and sell Galway wool is “a giant step forward” for sheep farmers in the county.

Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys TD, has this week highlighted the responsibilities of dog owners and the vulnerability of sheep to dog attacks, particularly during lambing season.

The collective spirit of the Garrycastle GAA community was to the fore this past weekend as club members gathered in unison to complete ‘Timpeall Na Tire’, a fundraising initiative which raised much needed monies for both Athlone Meals and Wheels and Croí.

It may not be the most obvious focus for a European Capital of Culture event, but Galway 2020 will be celebrating everything and anything to do with sheep - from farm to fork, the catwalk, and everything in between.

All roads lead to Cashel for the All Ireland Sheep Shearing Championships this weekend.

SHEEP HAVE a bad reputation as the ultimate conformists. If one of them does something, they all have to do it. Woolly is different though. She dares to be adventurous, and after she gets shorn, she's determined to find out what happened to her wool.

Galway 2020’s Project Baa Baa will present the first of its events as a part of Sheep 2018 Farm to Fork in Athenry this weekend.