A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

It was at the tail end of last season that monitoring by Fight Against Blight (FAB) confirmed the EU46 strain had been found ...

The ever-increasing death toll and the need to provide coffins for internments created demands on the finances of the Board ...

Research by German scientists into the genetic makeup of European potato varieties has revealed that, despite significant ...

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