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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.

East Galway TD Seán Canney has this week urged dog owners to be mindful of attacks on sheep as the lambing season approaches.

It has been 45 minutes since the announcement — we are relaxing with tea in an upper room on the second floor of Galway Cathedral and the new Bishop is sitting there, taking it all in, flanked by the men who announced him to the world. He looks like a man returning to his own house, and being introduced to his neighbours.