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Make #PancakeTuesday extra special by adding the goodness of fresh dairy into the mix! Whether it’s sweet or savoury, you’ll find something to suit everyone in one of these five recipes… Stewed apple cinnamon pancakes Mixed berry crêpes Mushroom, spinach and cheese pancakes Pancakes with crispy bacon and maple syrup Upside down pancakes

Two weeks on from the announcement of this year’s NDC & Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards[1] winners – the Connelly family from Tuam in Co Galway – the air has cleared slightly and once again there’s time to reflect on the significance of the awards to the Irish dairy industry. First, there has never been a […]

What is the role of dairy in your diet? Most of us recognise milk and dairy foods as everyday staples – we routinely add them to our shopping basket and they form part of daily diets across the world. In fact, over 90 % of the Irish population consume dairy. Dairy foods such as butter, […]

It is estimated that worldwide, an osteoporotic fracture occurs every 3 seconds. Osteoporosis is a disease which gradually weakens bones, leading to painful and debilitating fractures with the most common sites for a fracture to occur being the hip, wrist and spine. This disease occurs when bone mass continually decreases more quickly than the body […]

2022 is shaping up to be a year of real challenge played out in a public arena. This will be the year when the reality of what it takes to achieve national emissions targets will sink in and when people will realise that, when the phrase ‘everyone must play their part’ is used, it means […]

It’s Christmas again and whether or not we get our Christmas parties and extended family gatherings this year, we will undoubtedly be indulging ourselves more than usual. It’s a time when caution is thrown to the winds and a little more of this and another half a glass of that seem wholly justified and completely […]

By Zoë Kavanagh, CEO, National Dairy Council As a nation, Ireland has no choice when it comes to climate change – globally, emissions must be reduced, and everyone and every industry sector must play their part. Where we are being let down, however, is by a ‘cart before horse’ approach – sectoral emissions targets are […]

by Zoë Kavanagh, CEO, NDC Two weeks on from the announcement of this year’s NDC & Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards winners, the dust has begun to settle and there’s time to reflect on what the awards mean to the Irish dairy industry, the family farms that make it what it is and the work that’s […]

By Shane Fitzgerald, NDC Farmer Ambassador Concerns around climate change – solidified by the recent data from the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) – are driving public debate these days and, rightly, we’re acknowledging that all of us will have to do our bit if we are to meet the stated goal of […]

It probably seems a silly question. Indeed, many people won’t have given a thought to whether cows actually have names or not. And therein lies one of the big issues faced by Irish dairy – a disconnection between the consumer of Irish dairy products (consumption that has increased during the pandemic) and the people and […]

By Zoë Kavanagh, CEO, NDC Backed by 4,000 years of dairy history, today there are around 18,000 dairy farmers in Ireland. In the main a family enterprise, these farmers milk more than 1.5 million dairy cows daily to produce staples such as milk, cheese, cream, yogurt, butter and whey protein. Dairy production also plays an […]

By Zoë Kavanagh, CEO, NDC Ireland is blessed with the perfect conditions for dairy production, with a temperate climate and plentiful rainfall enabling a grass-based system that is the envy of the world. It’s thanks to this that Ireland’s dairy industry is the most carbon efficient in the European Union. But while our grass-based, family-farming […]