Irish Farmers Journal podcasts

This week’s episode was recorded live at the National Ploughing Championships where Sarah McIntosh and Martin Merrick sat down with dating enthusiast Doireann O’Connor and her dad Charley.“If it’s not blue it won’t do”, according to Doireann O’Connor, the social media star who has over 56,000 followers on Instagram and 46,000 followers on Tiktok.Live from the Irish Farmers Journal stand at this year’s Ploughing, Doireann and her dad Charley talk about farming, fame and family life in Ballyroan, Co Laois.Doireann discusses her journey from teaching to singing in a wedding band and why she decided to take a leap of faith into media after travelling around the world,“I had always been working around media, but I was too afraid to jump into it; I was afraid of failing. When I came home, I said I had nothing to lose, throw everything at it and see what happens. I had a new mindset, I didn’t really care what people thought anymore,” she explains.When talking about dating in rural Ireland and where to meet people Doireann advises that you just need to put yourself out there.“People just need to talk to people more in real life,” says Doireann.

In an exclusive interview with Anna Marie McHugh as the National Ploughing Championships 2026 draws to a close, the assistant managing director of the NPA talks about the success of this years show, the level of preparation that goes into putting on such a huge annual event and growing up surrounded by the Ploughing.

Join Lorcan and Stephen from our stage at The National Ploughing Championships 2026 for a special episode of Down to Agribusiness

This week, Adam and the panel are live from the National Ploughing Championships in Screggan, Tullamore, Co Offaly. They talk fodder, CAP and the outlook for each sector in 2027.  We welcome any feedback and questions you have for the Farm Tech Talk team. Please email farmtechtalk@farmersjournal.ie or send a text or voice note to our WhatsApp number 086 836 6465Click here if you would like a weekly email notification when Farm Talk is released https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1LkIraRklQcK5mClBGXTpFgets9e

Ploughing day three: Hansen, Heydon, and rural planningDescription: On our final episode from Ploughing 2026, we hear from Commissioner Hansen and Minister Heydon on CAP, hear the latest on rural planning guidelines and get a round-up from around Screggan. 

On this week’s Tillage Podcast we report from the National Ploughing Champioships. Tillage editor Siobhán Walsh was joined by political correspondent Pat O’Toole on the upcoming budget. We chat to renewables editor on opportunities to sell crops to digesters and crops in the North West and we catch up with tillage reporter Conor Kehoe on oilseed rape planting and crops left to be harvested. The Tillage Podcast is supported by Bayer Crop Science.

tune into day two of our podcast from Ploughing 2026

Taoiseach Micheál Martin joins the Inside Dairy podcastSubscribe here

‘Rural drugs - a hidden crime’  Irish Country Living journalist Jacqueline Hogge chairs a Ploughinng panel discussion on rural drug use with those on the front line of drug support and senior Gardaí.