Catchment Scientist working in the Midlands & Eastern Region. Views my own.
Offaly, Ireland
Joined April 2017
- Tweets1.6K
- Following795
- Followers693
- Likes2.7K
Offaly Good Water retweeted
Curious about the Farming for Water EIP? 🚜💧
Project Lead Mairead Whitty answers your top questions!
Learn more 👉 farmingforwater.ie/faqs
#FarmingForWater
@DairyIndustryIE @teagasc
Offaly Good Water retweeted
Targeted actions for water quality - find out more in this take-home message article in the latest issue of #TResearch here bit.ly/4btARaw.
Offaly Good Water retweeted
Tonight, we visit a Limerick butcher and farmer, join Kerry dairy farmers improving water quality, and explore a sea eagle conservation project in Munster.
#EarToTheGround | Tonight at 7pm
Offaly Good Water retweeted
🏆 Congratulations to Ballycumber Tidy Towns who claimed top prize in the Water Heritage Award category at today's @HeritageWeek Awards.
The group's inclusive art workshops, called 'Folly Tales and Treasure Trails', proved a hit for children of all ages and abilities. 👏 🎨
ALT Ballycumber Tidy Towns on stage at the National Herigate Week Awards 2024.
Offaly Good Water retweeted
John and Brendan Walsh from Ballylooby, Co. Tipperary are the Overall Winners of the Teagasc @fbd_ie Environmental Sustainability Awards 2024.
Watch this short clip to find out more or read more here bit.ly/3XJEySO
#EnvironmentAwards @TeagascSignpost
Offaly Good Water retweeted
LAWPRO’s Community Water Development Fund 2025 is now open for applications🙌
We are hosting a funding clinic online this Friday the 27th of September at 11am through Zoom⬇️
Register to attend here: tinyurl.com/ppen3nhv
Link to grants portal: tinyurl.com/mr3eb8sc
Offaly Good Water retweeted
Mary Roache spoke to Patrick Gowing, Dairy Specialist at the Teagasc stand at #Ploughing2024 to find out more about the scale model dairy farmyard demonstrating how good farmyard design will solve a lot of problems, whether it’s from a water quality or a labour point of view.
Offaly Good Water retweeted
I’m proud to announce that the National Parks & Wildlife Service and Coillte have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding for greater partnership and collaboration on restoring nature at scale in Ireland. @coilltenews
Offaly Good Water retweeted
Delighted hear about Ireland Water Action Plan .. especially around a national management plan for invasive species and the long awaited final legislation .. @noonan_malcolm @WatersProgramme 👏.. all our river banks are just heaving with Himalayan Balsam Impatiens glandulifera
💧Ireland's Water Action Plan & LAWPRO's Community Water Development Fund for 2025 were launched today by Minister Noonan & Minister O'Gorman at the River Nore in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny.
Read full press release here: lawaters.ie/press-release-la…
#RBMP
Offaly Good Water retweeted
💧Ireland's Water Action Plan & LAWPRO's Community Water Development Fund for 2025 were launched today by Minister Noonan & Minister O'Gorman at the River Nore in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny.
Read full press release here: lawaters.ie/press-release-la…
#RBMP
Offaly Good Water retweeted
All set for the Farming for Water event at Castleisland, County Kerry today are Terry O'Mahony and Caoilfhionn Dodd from Kerry Agri, pictured alongside Mairead Shore of the Farming for Water team.
@teagasc @agriculture_ie @DeptHousingIRL @IFAmedia
Offaly Good Water retweeted
📸Lough Ree photo taken by Lee Williamson from Longford scoops top prize in National Photography Competition!
Runners up in LAWPRO’s ‘My Favourite Waterbody’ competition are Jimmy O’Neill, Marie Melvin, John Collins and Dalia Guzauskaite👏
Press Release: tinyurl.com/52bmenrb
ALT Dalia Guzauskaite’s photo of Connemara
ALT Jimmy O’Neill’s photo of Hollywood Lake in Scotstown, Co. Monaghan
ALT Marie Melvin’s photo of Lacken, Blessington Lake in Co. Wicklow
ALT Overall winner of the ‘My Favourite Waterbody’ national photography competition Lee Williamson from Lanesborough in Co. Longford for his photo of Lough Ree, Co. Longford.
Offaly Good Water retweeted
Catchment Scientist Joan Martin @LAWPRO +David Webster Sustainability Advisor @TeagascACP examined "Farming for Water" EIP on the farm of David Fay plus @IFAmedia Rural Development Chair John Curran. "Targeted Voluntary measures with good management yielding positive results"
Offaly Good Water retweeted
"If anything, we need to double down and amplify our efforts. But it doesn't have to mean huge change or investment either". John Curran of the IFA said.
eu1.hubs.ly/H09K5Nw0
Great to see people taking some time out from their morning walk to scan the QR codes on our Blue dot signs to learn all about our best rivers @BlueDotWaters @WatersProgramme @maoltuile #camcor
Offaly Good Water retweeted
Last one promise, the Aurora at Lough Ennell taken from Lilliput.. #NorthernLights
Offaly Good Water retweeted
The five year Pearl Mussel Project ended in December 2023. On behalf of the PMP team & our many partners, we would like to extend thanks to all participating farmers for their involvement with project over the last 5 years. We couldn’t have done it without you & your committment!
Offaly Good Water retweeted
Trace 4 of Lough Carra catchment is underway. We injected 3 non-toxic dyes into the groundwater system. An intensive monitoring program with over 30 monitoring sites is underway, to see where the dyes re-emerge. Video thanks to Pádraig of @LoughCarraLife @GeolSurvIE
