Feirm Factor is back, and it’s bigger than ever!

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As Ireland’s most successful homegrown reality series it’s no surprise the IFTA nominated show is returning for its Fifth Series on TG4. This year Feirm Factor adds one more element as the entire family will be involved.

 

Each year Feirm Factor has turned up the heat, expanded and grown, putting Ireland’s top farmers under the ultimate farming test, to find the countries’ top farmer.

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This year, it’s a family affair, where family teams of 4 will compete against each other to take home a cash prize of €20,000. We found 8 of Ireland’s top farming families, with team members hailing from Cork, Kerry, Leitrim, Roscommon, Galway, Dublin and Kildare, all hoping to be crowned Ireland’s top farming family.

 

The families need to be at the top of their game to impress our 3 judges, the ever tough dairy farmer and veteran Feirm Factor judge, Corkman Seán Ó Lionaird, and new recruits, veterinary surgeon Peadar Ó Scanaill from Ashbourne, Co. Meath, and organic enthusiast and former presenter of Garraí Glás, Connemara girl Síle Nic Chonaonaigh.

 

On hand to offer words of encouragement to our farmers is our glamorous new presenter, Galway girl, Síle Ní Bhraonáin.

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In addition to being an entertainment series, Feirm Factor champions Irish farming, and the skills and knowledge needed to be a top farmer today. We gain a valuable insight into what it means to these farming families to be farming in Ireland today, where there are no days off, there is no sick leave, and it’s no 9 – 5.

 

These families are required to always be on the go, never stopping and constantly dealing with an assortment of trials and situations throughout their week. It is these trials and situations that Feirm Factor pays homage to and gives the viewer at home a look into the daily routine and challenges of the farmyard.

 

With tasks ranging from tractor obstacle courses to dosing cattle, guessing crossbreeds of animals to grueling quizzes, herding sheep and building fences, there was no task left undone. These families need the right mix of knowledge and experience, skill and tenacity.

 

Join us to see which family has what it takes. 8 families. One winner.

 

‘Clann Feirm Factor’ will air for 7 weeks from Sunday, January 2015

at 8.30pm on TG4

 

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Tá Feirm Factor ar ais ar bhur scaileáin agus tá sé níos mó ná a riamh!

 

 

Formáid réalach talmhaíochta thar a bheith rathúil is ea Feirm Factor, a thosaigh ar TG4 i 2008, agus é anois le feiceáil ar fud an domhain. Tá sé ceadúnaithe anois ag comhlacht teilifíse CCTV7 sa tSín, chomh maith le bheith i gcúig tíortha Eorpacha chomh maith leis an Nua-Shéalainn.

 

Is é seo an cúigiú tsraith den fhormáid ar TG4 agus é ag dul ó neart go neart ó shin i leith.

 

Le tréimhse ceithre bhlian anuas, tá feirmeoirí na hÉireann tar éis dul in iomaíocht lena chéile chun duais ollmhór a bhuachain, agus go dtí seo, is feirmeoirí aonair a bhí i gceist. I mbliana, is Clann Feirm Factor atá ann – foireann do ceathrar clainne ag dul in iomaíocht in aghaidh clann eile chun duais €20,000 a thógáil abhaile.

 

Is é seo an dúshlán feirmeoireachta is deacra atá ann, agus muid ar thóir an chlann feirmeoireachta is fearr sa tír.

 

Ó thaobh na moltóirí de, beidh an fheirmeoir déiríochta Sean Ó Lionaird inar dteannta arís dar ndóigh, agus beidh beirt moltóirí nua in éineacht leis – máinlia tréidliachta Peadar Ó Scanaill as Cill Dhéagláin Co. na Mí, agus cailín as Connemara, láithreoir Garraí Glas Síle Nic Chonaonaigh.

 

Ar lámh chun focail spreagadh a thabhairt do na h-iomaitheoirí beidh láithreoir nua againn, cáilín aoibheann as Chontae na Gaillimhe, Síle Ní Bhraonáin.

 

Maraon le bheith ina tsraith siamsaíochta, tugann Feirm Factor léargas duinn cén sort scilleanna atá ag teastáil ag na daoine seo chun a bheith ina fheirmeoirí cumasach san lá atá inniú ann – Níl aon laethanta saoire, níl aon saoire bhreoiteachta, agus ní óna 9 go dtí a 5 a bhíonn’s an lá oibre.

 

Ní stopann na teaghlaigh seo a riamh, agus iad i gconaí ag deileáil le fadhbanna agus trialacha éagsúla – agus mar an gcéanna a bheas Feirm Factor.

 

Tá meascán mhaith tascanna ann, rudaí ar nós tarrachóir a thiomáint ar bac-chúrsa, go dtí aois agus méachain ainmhí éagsúla a thomhais, beidh tráth na gceist agus fál le tógáil – bíonn cuile saghas dúshlán ann.

 

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