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Married to Collette,dad to Eoghan. Dairy farming West Cork , Clover grower. 🍀🍀🍀 @farmtourscork Mad sports fan. Kilmacs. L.F.C. and anything with a ball!!!

Glandore, West Cork. Ireland.
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
Silage by the sea!! #silage23
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Silage with a view!! #silage22
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Not funny when the bags of urea are more valuable that the spreader!!! #farming #fertlizer
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Total carnage here after the heaviest rain I’ve ever heard last night!!
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Denis O'Donovan
5 years
Proud day in UCC receiving my Diploma in Environmental Science and Social Policy. Huge thanks to my family for all the help, also to the sustainability team at @CarberyGroup for giving us the chance to do it. #adultlearning #farmersincollege
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Amazing what you can find when walking off the turkey in #westcork never knew there was an EIRE sign so close to us on the coast at Toe Head!!
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Denis O'Donovan
7 months
@CarlowWeather @JP_Cork Shocking days rain here in west cork.. Glandore this evening!! #StormBabet
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Denis O'Donovan
4 months
Yesterday we hosted Glandore National School onto our farm . It’s part of a new initiative between farmers , co-ops and Carbery where we bring schools out on farm. Showing how our food is produced, we all had a ball!! #grasstomilk #classroomtofarm
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
I remember this late goal too!! #UpTheRebels #upcork
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Sure what else would you be doing in middle of the night? #calving22 #farming
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
What a day out, Fasnet lighthouse a absolute must do, a landmark at sea like no other!! Thanks to @CapeClearFerry for getting us there and back. #westcork #Staycation2020
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Beautiful sunrise this am, no airplanes only the sound of the birds #westcork #purecork #farming
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Sure if it’s not on Twitter, it never happened!! #silage2021
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Downeen Castle near ⁦ @RossWestCork ⁩ all within my 5k, sometimes we forget just how lucky we are to be living in beautiful west cork!! #westcork #rosscarbery
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Denis O'Donovan
5 years
Warm day.. even the cows need cooling down here in Castletownbere #WestCork
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
What an unbelievable day off Dursey and Bull Island… it really is like another world out there!! #westcork #garnishboattrip #purecork
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
Red clover silage in one… red clover been set in the other!! #redclover
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Denis O'Donovan
5 years
What a shame that ⁦ @farmersjournal ⁩ couldn’t put this headline in the front page instead of down the bottom of page 4 #irishfarmers
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
@EoinKeane101 @greenparty_ie It take roughly 3500 litres of water to produce just 1 litre of almond milk…. It takes Irish dairy farmers 7 litres to produce a litre of Cows milk…. Just think about that for a second #irishdairy
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Denis O'Donovan
10 months
2nd cut done and dusted.. just before the rain!! #silage23
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
40 days since #westcorkflooding our road has reopened , big thanks to @COSullivanTD for the help in getting @mmcgrathtd down and getting the much needed government funding #WestCork #purecork
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Denis O'Donovan
10 months
Fabulous day out on the water in #WestCork
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Sure if it wasn’t posted on Twitter.. did it really happen at all? #firstcalf #calving22
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Beautiful morning here in West Cork, happy Easter everyone #WestCork #purecork
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
A bit of stitching in of clover here today, hoping to start cutting back on nitrogen use in the future. Saving the planet one paddock at a time!! @Grasstechnology @Germinal_Ire @LisavairdCo #clovertomilk #grasstomilk #Sustainability
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Denis O'Donovan
5 years
A big thank you to @IrishGrassland for being asked to speak at the dairy conference yesterday, a great honour and I really enjoyed the experience #IGADAIRY #GrasstoMilk
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Interesting read in today’s ⁦ @farmersjournal ⁩ by ⁦ @aidan_bren #crossbreeding #JEX
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
No social distancing going on here anyway!!! #Bulls
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
It’s official.. autumn is here and it’s dark ! #September1st
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Fab sunrise this morning over Galley Head #westcork #sunrise
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Denis O'Donovan
5 years
7000 nearly as old as myself!! #oldschool #grasstomilk
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Another 50+mls of rain last night, cows standing in water #WestCork
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Denis O'Donovan
7 months
Cows loving the red clover silage… lucky to have some at the moment!! #silagetomilk
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Denis O'Donovan
6 years
The beautiful mornings keep on coming, long may they last!! #MyWildAtlanticWay #westcork #PureCork
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Nothing beats #westcork especially when the sun shines!! #Baltimore #capeclear #fasnet
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Normally not a mad IFA man but I do think that this issue is worth fighting for, milk will be produced somewhere, why not here where the carbon footprint and water usage is the lowest in THE WORLD! #irishdairy #saveirishfarming
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Harold Kingston 🐄 🚜
3 years
National @IFAmedia Day Of Action this Friday in Cavan 7.30am, Roscommon 12.30pm, Portlaoise 4pm, & Cork City 8pm #CAP #ClimateAction #SustainingIreland #SaveIrishFarming
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Calm and peaceful in beautiful Glandore this evening #westcork #purecork
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Red clover filling the hole in the feed budget!! #redclover #clovertomilk #zerograzing #westcork
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
No drought here in West Cork ... yet!! Growth of 80. So surplus baled. #bales
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
The “collars” are on … must be #breeding23
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Great day out around Courtmacsherry and 7heads walk well done to local farmer like @HaroldKingston1 for letting us us their land to walk on #WestCork #purecork
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Never let dry weather go without doing some digger work!! #grasstomilk #farming
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Denis O'Donovan
7 years
No power since 11 yesterday, lucky have this baby to keep the show going #ophellia
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Denis O'Donovan
6 years
Pouring rain when going to bed, still pouring rain when I get up !! This has to be the darkest hour before the dawn , it can only improve after this #bastardweather
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
Fine evening for the job.. 2nd cut of red clover, no artificial N. 8.5 bales/ acre #redclover
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Grass and clover going in.. hopefully we get the rain that’s forecast!! #grasstomilk #clovertomilk #reseeding
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Savage sunrise here in beautiful #westcork this am
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Denis O'Donovan
5 years
Swapping the overalls and wellies tonight for the black tie heading to the west cork business and tourism awards, part of @FarmToursCork #westcorkbusinessandtourismawards
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
Soil temperatures right and ground conditions good… it’s urea time!! #grasstomilk #dairyfarming
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Denis O'Donovan
10 months
Looks like it might be a nice day!! #summer
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Denis O'Donovan
5 years
Cows enjoying the sunshine and the view!! #westcork #PureCork #coppingerscourt
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Sh*t just go real!! #Fertilizer #Farming
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Denis O'Donovan
6 years
What a weekend to have been camping, the south of France wouldn't have the likes , Eagle point between Bantry and Glengarriff in stunning west cork #purecork #westcork #camping #summer18
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Denis O'Donovan
5 years
Grazing finished here for 2019, but grass still on the menu for the next week #outsideblock #grasstomilk
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Don’t gete wrong, the rain was badly needed, but the cows standing by the ditch in mid summer with the rawness of the cold wind isn’t great! #weather #grastomilk
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
West Cork in all its glory today, how lucky we are to live so close!! #westcork #purecork #rosscarbery #glandore
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Roads washed away here between Rosscarbery and Glandore #spotflooding
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Not a bad view from this office today!! #silage2022 #grasstomilk
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Can hear the rain slashing off the window, I’d say all farmers would love to “stay at home” this am! #bastardweather #rain
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Calves’s enjoying the sunshine the view......and of course the milk!! #calvestograss #grasstomilk #WestCork
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
What a great slide from Dr.Mary Flynn from the FSAI at today’s Teagasc Dairy conference #dairyconference22
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
A mid 1600 ruin castle over the ditch from our farm , Coppinger’s Court, must have been something else in its hay day! #westcork #rosscarbery
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
@AidanAidanmc Upgraded today!! #JCB
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
Everyone’s enjoying the sunshine!! #fineweather #grasstomilk #bbq
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Did someone say JULY!! Results of 40 mils #summer
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Rough morning here in #westcork #stormBarra
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
@billokeeffe Spot on Bill, I’ve no problem with people drinking other “milks” but don’t drink it thinking you’re saving the planet!!
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Denis O'Donovan
1 month
Our very own “Crock of Gold!” #dairyfarming #crossbreeding #grasstomilk
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Denis O'Donovan
8 years
9% solids in August #happyfarmer #crossbreeds
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Denis O'Donovan
7 years
Concrete finished and mats down by @EasyFixOfficial and @LisavairdCo next up cubicles by @odonovaneng and scrapers by @Dairypower
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4 years
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
At least the the tractor is increasing in value!! #ford7000
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Warm weather for this building crac!! #farming #building #farmbuildings
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Heifers enjoying the calm and peaceful morning #WestCork #IndianSummer
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
Good morning from #WestCork
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Can all those that were praying for rain 5/6 weeks ago get up off your knees now... we have enough!! Another 35 mls since 6pm yesterday #summer
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
A bit of buffering going on here from outside ground #grasstomilk
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Denis O'Donovan
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Denis O'Donovan
5 years
Fantastic win for @OfficialCorkGAA U20’s , delighted for our club @KilmacabeaGAA player Damian Gore who kicked 4 wonderful points, great guy who handy at the cows too!! #gaa #corkvdublin
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
What a great surprise for us in Glandore church for Christmas mass listening to @RachaelODonovan playing the piano #christmascarols #westcork
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Not a bad view from “The Office” today!! #silage21
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
Said I’d do a bit of whale watching …. got distracted.. #westcork #whalewatching
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Denis O'Donovan
7 years
Sun trying to burst trough the fog behind the The Galley Head over Rosscarbery Bay on the @wildatlanticway
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Denis O'Donovan
6 years
Well I guess we will find out what kind of silage we made in 2015!!! #silage
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
WARNING 😀you’d need a big appetite for the Irish Breakfast Hoagie from Craft West Cork @CelticRossHotel Absolutely gorgeous and all local suppliers . From tomorrow all of CORK can enjoy! 😋 #craftwestcork #rosscarbery #purecork
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
3 weeks of AI done… 94% submission. Time for back up now with vasectomised bulls no fancy collars here… yet!!! #breeding23
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Denis O'Donovan
6 years
It's not only great grass we grow here in West Cork!!! #Mushrooms
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Denis O'Donovan
5 years
@FarmToursCork ⁩ winning the Tourism award tonight at #CCBAwards2018
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Denis O'Donovan
2 years
26mls today and a bit of heat on the way = #grasstomilk
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Denis O'Donovan
21 days
Breeding 24 is a go! Hi tech head detection here again this year! #dairyfarming #tailpaint
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
Delighted to be able to show people what Irish dairy is all about, we take for granted cows outside eating grass but it’s not the norm as 90% of the world’s milk is produced from grain! #milkfromgrass
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West Cork Farm Tours
1 year
Busy morning giving our Dutch visitors a farm tour of sustainable dairy, grass and clover being grazed . They also got to taste Dubliner cheese made from milk form the pastures of West Cork!! #westcorkfarmtours #grasstomilk
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Denis O'Donovan
4 months
It’s official… we’re now beef farmers!! #dairybeef
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Denis O'Donovan
3 years
Back inside after #calving21 and I can confirm that is a whore of a night!! Sideways rain from the south east that would cut ya! #WeatherUpdate #rain #farming
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Denis O'Donovan
6 years
At least the heifers have a cracking view as they eat next winters forage 😂😂 #drought18
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Denis O'Donovan
7 years
Dolphins in playful mood in Glandore harbour this evening 🐬🐬🐬 #westcork
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Denis O'Donovan
6 years
Great to get good news twice from @LisavairdCo #milkpriceup
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Wouldn’t you just love to know what’s in the blue barrel? #bluebarrel #WTF
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Denis O'Donovan
4 years
Looks like the sun is just after a quick swim this morning!! #westcork #galleyhead #WildAtlanticWay
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Denis O'Donovan
1 year
Shaken but not stirred!! 007 #dairyfarming
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