We would like to thank Malcolm Noonan T.D. for his endless energy & positivity yesterday! Opening the #RuralWaterConference, launching guidebooks, announcing the 2024 Excellent Awards Winners, address the NFGWS Board & taking time to listen to members and visit stands-1/2 #ThankYou

Once found all over Ireland, the Great Yellow Bumblebee is now restricted to the Mullet Peninsula & adjacent mainland But there's hope. Dara Stanley tells us about the extraordinary work that's taken place in recent years to save our rarest true bumblebee tinyurl.com/4j6tpu2w

National Services Day at Kilkenny Castle Park. It was wonderful to meet and chat with emergency services personnel, volunteers and other frontline service providers and to celebrate their great work. #NationalServicesDay

🛖 Matt Whelan and Minister Malcolm Noonan T.D. discussing thatching houses in the We're Taking Climate Action tent.

We're excited to kickoff another year at the ploughing! Swing by our stand in the Hub for a chat, you might bump into a Minister, or two. #Ploughimg2024

🚜Day 1 National Ploughing ☀️ National Monuments Service archaeologists engaging with the farming community on protecting Ireland’s archaeological heritage #Ploughing24 📍Block 3 – Row 11 - Stand 173 #ProtectOurPast #CheckBeforeYouDig #HeritageIreland2030 #CMF2024 #ClimatEireitage #HeritageWellbeing

Roderic O’Gorman TD, Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth, & Malcolm Noonan T.D., Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform, were on hand to show their support for the Growing Up in Ireland Survey 2024 cohort today National Ploughing Learn more ⯆ #GovPloughing

Huge interest in SEAI supports & grants for farmers & homeowners National Ploughing Good conversations with Charlie McConalogue Malcolm Noonan T.D. Alan Dillon Michael Moynihan TD on govt's Biomethane Strategy which SEAI is supporting. Visit SEAI stand 173, row 11, block 3 #Ploughing24

Climate Action is being rolled out as a Leaving Cert subject beginning in @Tyndall_College Carlow in 2025. John Tyndall was a 19th-century pioneer of climate science from Carlow so it's quite apt that the college will be one of the first schools in Ireland to teach the subject.

Nominations are open for the Heritage Hero Award. This Award is for an individual or organisation that has given an outstanding contribution to the protection and promotion of heritage. Nominate here: heritageweek.ie/about/heritage…

#CultureNight #Kilkenny Oíche chultúir Chill Chainnigh. Way too much to take in; thanks to all the artists, maker, musicians, venues for giving of their talent and time. Buy art, support live music, artists and makers.