Photos: Don Moloney Castlegarde Castle was built in AD 1190 by Donal Mor O’Brien, the king of Thomond or the Kingdom of Limerick in Gaelic Ireland. Today it is on a 300ac working farm in Ballyhoura.

At the time, Ireland was using only 2.2% of its utilised agricultural area for organic farming. Bulgaria was also using 2.2% of agricultural land for organic methods, putting it and Ireland tied ...

Teaching, David said, was the "only thing that would give me some time to farm". That is why he has supported a call for a Farm Welfare Bill to be introduced in Northern Ireland. "There's not ...