The floorboards in the house hadn’t been touched for more than 50 years, so when we finally lifted some at the start of this year it wasn’t surprising to uncover a collection of random items tucked ...

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have issued a stark warning about the future of the Irish hare and the threat it faces from the European 'brown' hare, which has set up home in Mid-Ulster and ...

Research from Queen's University Belfast has revealed the 20th century decline in the Irish hare population is almost certainly associated with changes in farming practices. The Stormont Assembly ...

Researchers have issued a stark warning about the future of the Irish hare and the threat it faces from the European 'brown' hare, which has set up home in Mid-Ulster and West Tyrone. Biologists have ...

A charity has urged people using the Belfast Hills to “spare a thought” for Irish hares as the species continues to be under threat. The Belfast Hills Partnership says that increased visitors to the ...

The Ulster Wildlife Trust has been the lead partner for the Irish hare Species Action Plan since 2001 and we take this role very seriously. We can understand how people would therefore assume that we ...

Sir, – Another hare-coursing season will soon begin. Politicians, as deaf to the pleas of campaigners as they’ve been to the cries of screaming hares, refuse to halt the cruelty of this “sport”. We ...

The Irish hare is at risk of being driven into extinction within the coming decades unless firm action is taken to stop the invading European hares from breeding. Researchers from Queen’s University ...

Tonight's FarmVille update brought with it two (technically three) new animals in the Connemara Pony and Irish Hare. Our prediction about the cost of the Connemara Pony has been proven correct, as it ...

Carl Mydans belongs on anyone’s short list of the 20th century’s finest photojournalists. The Boston native chronicled downtrodden migrant farmers in New England and the American South during the ...