Edward O Flynn

Dairy farmer full time of Ryefarm Holstein friesians in West Cork. Married and father of four. See it, Believe, Achieve it.

[Edward O Flynn @ryefarm84]

@MikeMagan1 I think our minister needs to develop a vision of profitable agriculture and see it to fruition. This will need to involve base price legislation, index linked to average industrial wage.
It's the only way of ensuring viability for all sectors.

[Samuel Deane @ArableSam]

Now we are getting to the elephant in the room on water quality. One of the elephants anyway!

[Edward O Flynn @ryefarm84]

@jhealyq @ArableSam How many days post grazing do you wait Joe?

[ConceptDairy™ @ConceptDairy]

You could be buying palm oil Easter eggs without realising it… 👀

But the fix is simple:
👉 Avoid palm oil
👉 Choose Easter eggs that are palm oil free
👉 Support farmers

@marksandspencer have lots of great options but also some to avoid!

Watch before you shop 🛒

[Donal Murphy @Murph99D]

The CHFC are having an online calved heifer & bull sale this w/e 🐄🐮 All reposts appreciated 👍 https://t.co/4jNEIJj75h

[ConceptDairy™ @ConceptDairy]

Every 3 days, 4 dairy farmers are going out of business.
Not because people stopped buying…
But because the system is broken.
Everyone protects their profits, except the farmer.
And somehow… you’re still paying more.

Like, Comment & Share 👍

#SupportFarmers #FoodSecurity

[Oasis @oasis]

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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

He is right. After 10-12 years, cow methane is broken down into CO2, entering a carbon cycle absorbed by plants via photosynthesis, converted into cellulose and eaten by livestock and the cycle starts again. The essence of environmental sustainability.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Dr. Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace:

"[Carbon dioxide] is the most important nutrient for all life on Earth, and without it this would be a dead planet."

"I am firmly of the belief that the future will show that this whole hysteria over climate change was a complete fabrication."

[Edward O Flynn @ryefarm84]

Also posting that it's currently NOT raining........yet......today here in Cork!!!!
Thanks for your attention

[Peadar Tóibín TD @Toibin1]

The National Children's Hospital was delayed again this week.

It was supposed to be open by 2020 and cost €700m

It will now be 2027 at the earliest and will cost over $2.2bn.

Remember who signed the contract.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Young woman just asked the question everyone’s thinking but few say out loud:

“Raw milk is banned in so many places because it’s ‘so dangerous’… but a neon-blue energy drink is totally fine. Feed it to your kids, no problem.”

Why is one treated like poison while the other is marketed to children?

She nails it:
If you can get milk straight from the source—no barcode, no middleman—you’re no longer just a customer.
And that is the real threat.

Raw milk: dangerous or just unprofitable?
Where do you stand on this one?

[Edward O Flynn @ryefarm84]

@brianrushe81 I have to correct you there Brian
We've been 45 minutes without rain here in West Cork!!

[Edward O Flynn @ryefarm84]

@Murph99D Morning Donal
Can you message me there if you have a minute

[Edward O Flynn @ryefarm84]

Ryefarm Herd offers for sale 19 Spring calving heifers from our top families as part of IHFA Autumn Classic Sale. Photos and catalogue available on Marteye and Denis Barrett auctions. RTs would be great!! Any enquiry welcome.

[ConceptDairy™ @ConceptDairy]

Your biscuit choice matters more than you think 🍪
Butter supports farmers.
Palm oil comes from thousand of miles away.

✅ Pick the All Butter @marksandspencer range.
🛑 Leave the ones containing #PalmOil behind.
📣 Please share this far and wide.

#ReadTheLabel #cleverswaps

[Prof Aoife M. Foley @AoifeMFoley]

I disagree Brigid and Cliff. I think you forget the context of @Bordbia I first encountered this issue back in 2010. I bought eggs in Ireland covered in Irish flags and carrying “Bord Bia approved” branding with the national flag. Like most consumers, I assumed they were produced in the Republic of Ireland. When I checked more closely, they weren’t. Bord Bia explained that “approved” referred to standards, not origin. That answer may have been legally correct, but it exposed a serious gap between what labels mean and what consumers reasonably understand.

Fifteen years later, that confusion still exists. Food produced outside the State can meet Irish standards and still carry Irish cues, while the country of origin is technically correct but visually secondary. This undermines consumer trust and disadvantages Irish producers who meet the same standards and produce locally. This is not about banning imports, it’s about clarity and honesty.

Bord Bia should introduce a standard, prominent label for imported food stating: “Meets Irish Food Standards – Produced in [Country]”. The term “Bord Bia Approved” should be reserved solely for food produced in the Republic of Ireland. Imported food can meet standards, but words like “approved” carry an implied origin that the public clearly understands in a different way.

It’s also worth remembering why Bord Bia was set up in the first place. Established in the mid-1990s, in the aftermath of food scares and the Beef Tribunal era, and Larry Goodman’s massive import business, Bord Bia was designed to rebuild trust, professionalise Irish food marketing, and create clear separation between commercial power and public credibility. Systems, transparency, and independence were the whole point.

That history is exactly why governance and optics matter today. Where senior figures in a State marketing body have commercial interests in importing food that benefits from Bord Bia branding, public confidence is undermined even if everything is technically compliant. Trust depends not just on rules being followed, but on independence being seen to exist. @IFAmedia and our farmers are 100% correct.

This isn’t protectionism. It’s about respecting consumers, protecting Irish producers, and aligning Bord Bia’s practices with the purpose for which it was created.

[Conor O Leary @conorcoleary]

Yvonne Quinn, Leitrim, a young person with a profound understanding of double standards.
https://t.co/Ow2HU9djCY

[ConceptDairy™ @ConceptDairy]

When farmers are paid below the cost of production, they go out of business.
When that happens, local communities suffer.

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[Tommy Rooney @TomasORuanaidh]

Ain’t nobody like JBM.

Gut-wrenching defeat for the Barrs, but well worth listening to how Jimmy Barry Murphy handles it post-match.

a club with serious pedigree, they’ll be back - also have a Camogie All-Ireland final to look forward to next week too 👏

[ConceptDairy™ @ConceptDairy]

🎄 Before you buy @marksandspencer Belgian Chocolates this #Christmas, here’s what you need to know…

🛑 M&S use #Palmoil, Palm Kernel Oil and Coconut Oil in their Belgian Chocolates.

Watch this. Share this. And put the good stuff in your trolley.

#BackBritishFarmers

[Edward O Flynn @ryefarm84]

@grazyfarmer Cant remember.........