Getting a good final finish on your cattle will decide your grade and pricing. Other key factors which obviously influence animal performance are health, environment, feed quality, and feed availability. It is crucial the final finishing of an animal does not commence until the animal has been grown properly. However, a good quality forage can play a major role in reducing overall finishing costs. Poor silages slow down thrive and result in cattle finishing slower and very inefficiently.

McDonald's has tapped into the surge of interest around trading cards and this week launched packets of their own designs with selected meals. On Tuesday, it started dishing out themed trading cards when customers buy certain meal deals in Britain. Any meal in the deal purchased comes with a pack of four McDonald's cards. The rarest and most sought-after card is the chase card, known as the Ronald Card. Trading cards, including Pokémon, sports cards and Disney are seeing a boom in interest in recent years.

The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) has confirmed it will allow reverse compression of biomethane. Read More Security of power supply: Renewables are the only optionIreland’s National Biomethane Strategy established a target of 5.7 TWh/year of production by 2030. That equates to approximately 7.5% of the National Biomethane Strategy domestic production target of 5.7 TWh by 2030. Local Power agreementSeparately, Irish company Local Power has agreed a partnership with Vienna-headquartered AD technology experts, Biogest to accelerate the development of agricultural biomethane projects across Ireland. Pat Smith, managing director of Local Power Ltd, welcomed the collaboration, stating: “Local Power is delighted to work alongside Biogest, a company with an exceptional global record in agricultural anaerobic digestion technology.

County Roscommon has the second lowest number of bed nights available in the country when it comes to tourism accommodation, according to Fáilte Ireland figures. The county currently has 474 units providing 1,376 bed places, the second lowest number behind Offaly with 421 units providing 1,246 beds. Laois has the third lowest number with 560 units providing 1,587 beds while Carlow (628 units, 1,733 beds) and Leitrim (628 units, 2,452 beds) are fourth and fifth lowest respectively. In the remainder of Connacht, Galway has 6,983 units providing 17,806 beds, Mayo has 3,526 and 9,586 beds while Sligo provides 4,899 beds from 1,768 units. Dublin has the highest level of tourism accommodation nationally with 28,435 units and 63,547 beds while Kerry (8,108 units, 22,570 beds) and Cork (7,334 units, 9,948 beds) are second and third highest.

The 20-year team from their last Munster Schools Senior Cup title had long since organised a gathering to mark the anniversary of their 2006 triumph. Earls had been “gobsmacked by the occasion” when attending the 2004 final at Thomond Park, where Sla won his first Senior Cup against PBC. Read More How Spain trip helped shape Pres for Senior Cup push“We really played on that underdog card and John (Broderick) really instilled that into us and that work ethic that came with it. The 2006 final was their third Senior Cup in five years, all three won against Pres. Qualifying for both the Senior and Junior Cup finals this year carries a sense of getting back to where they belong.

Clinton resident David Welton captured this image of snow falling just a week before the first day of spring. He said he thought it as going to be the first winter he’s lived on South Whidbey that went by without snowflakes covering the landscape, but then conditions aligned to bring a brief moment of white splendor. The snowfall accumulated on the trees, bushes and the ground but melted away an hour later.

Pep Guardiola's Man City future to be announced within days as plan set ahead of Arsenal finalPep Guardiola has had a trophy-laden career as Manchester City manager but doubts have been cast over his futureView 2 Images Pep Guardiola will reportedly decide on his Manchester City future. (Image: Getty Images)Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will decide his future after Sunday's Carabao Cup final against Arsenal. ‌City were dumped out of the Champions League by Guardiola's former foes, Real Madrid, as Los Blancos won 5-1 on aggregate. The German head coach rued a lack of energy after a relentless eight-and-a-half years at Anfield that transformed the Reds from Champions League outsiders to champions of England and Club World Cup winners. View 2 Images Whether Pep Guardiola joins Jurgen Klopp in stepping out of the Premier League spotlight remains to be seen.

Tesco has agreed €10m in new contracts with four Irish food producers to stock their products in supermarkets across the UK and Europe. The new contracts are in addition to existing contracts for each supplier with Tesco Ireland. The Irish products will now be sold through Tesco outlets across the UK, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia. Irish food and drink producers are continuing to grow their international footprint, with more than €900m worth of Irish products exported each year to Tesco stores outside Ireland. “Irish suppliers are playing an increasingly important role in bringing high-quality Irish food to customers across the UK and Europe,” said Tesco Ireland CEO Geoff Byrne.

The price of a £250,000 two-year fixed-rate mortgage over 25 years has been calculated to have spiked by £788. Buyers taking out a new mortgage, as well as homeowners with a fixed-rate mortgage due to refresh, will be hit by the hikes. The 5.28 percent figure applies to two-year fixed rates, while five-year fixed rates have jumped from 4.95 percent to 5.32 percent. On Tuesday morning, it counted just nine fixed-rate deals with rates below four percent - nosediving from a count of 490 deals on March 9. Across the mortgage market generally, there were 689 fewer products on Tuesday morning, compared with March 9.

Rugby fans who engage in racial abuse of players could find their season tickets suspended, and they could be denied access to games. The occasion was marred by online racist abuse directed at the player on the Irish Rugby social media channels. Signify's Jonathan Sebira said it had been contracted by the IRFU to monitor the online threat or abuse of players. The online abuse of Edogbo ranged from “explicitly racist” to debate on the “nature of Irishness”, he said. “In this case, the majority (of the abuse) was actually coming from Irish accounts or from fans of the Ireland rugby team.

Aussies have called out a Vietnamese restaurant for appearing to use artificial intelligence to respond to Google reviews. The unhappy customer wrote that their soup at Saigon Square in Melbourne 'wasn't hot enough' in an online review later shared on Reddit. A Saigon Square staff member began their public response with what appeared to be AI giving them advice on how to reply. 'This 1-star review is focused on a very common and immediate issue in restaurant dining: temperature,' the staff member said. The staff member apparently continued to copy and paste from an AI prompt formatted like an SEO‑focused response.

He repeated a previous quote about Mr Starmer being “no Churchill”. Asked about the Irish public’s concerns about the war in Iran and its impact on energy prices, Mr Trump said he has many Irish friends who support the war. Mr Trump also said he believed the threat from Iran would have lead to a “nuclear holocaust”. Mr Trump said said he was a “nice guy” but criticised him as being “very weak on security”. You just said [Taoiseach], ‘I hope you get to go’,” Mr Trump said.

My surprise pregnancy at 45: ‘When I told my mam she was going to be a granny again, she told me I was having a change-of-life baby’When Davina Taylor realised she was carrying her third child in her mid-forties, she was concerned about the higher risk of complications – but she ended up sailing through the pregnancy, and her surprise baby changed her life perspective in a positive wayDavina Taylor and her son Max (8). Photo: Gerry MooneyFilomena Kaguako Today at 06:30It’s no secret that the women of Ireland are waiting much longer to embark on the journey of motherhood for the first time.

A specialist unit has been set up within the office of the garda ombudsman to handle complaints of domestic and sexual abuse by gardaí. The ombudsman office, Fiosrú, said a “specialist services unit” was established to investigate incidents, including public complaints, where a garda is accused of domestic violence, coercive control, abuse of power for sexual purposes, child sexual abuse or sexual assault. The woman says her arrests relate to breaches of a domestic violence order her husband secured against her. She also has a domestic violence order in place against her husband. "These include both complaints about the adequacy of An Garda Síochána’s response to domestic abuse/sexual violence incidents and also complaints about Garda members as perpetrators.”

Mikel Arteta claimed the wonder goal scored by Eberechi Eze to fire Arsenal on the way to the Champions League quarter-finals is “the reason why he’s here”. Eze hit spectacular 20-yard thunderbolt before Declan Rice added a classy second to seal a 2-0 win over Bayer Leverkusen for a 3-1 aggregate success. “We needed a magical moment from Ebs to score a wonderful goal, a wonderful strike to give us the lead,” said the Gunners boss. “Especially his level of activity with the ball, without the ball, in the spaces that he moves, the purpose that he’s showing every time he’s in and around the box as well, which is the reason why he’s here, to create those kind of moments. “I’m comparing the minutes that he’s ever played in his career.