Opinion
ICOS should step in and sort out Newtownsandes’ debacle
Surely ICOS has the moral authority to help settle the row that has erupted within the membership of Newtownsandes’ Co-op...
Opinion
Surely ICOS has the moral authority to help settle the row that has erupted within the membership of Newtownsandes’ Co-op...
Opinion
Seamus Heaney will long be remembered as one of Ireland’s greatest poets. But throughout his life he reflected at length...
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It strikes me that the European Commission has handed European dairy farmers a very effective means of countering future volatility...
Opinion
Hands up: how many people visiting Tullamore last week actually took the time to visit the competition ploughing plots? Shame...
Opinion
Setting up an emergency roundtable discussion group for the tillage sector sounds great in principle. But, in practice, it will...
Opinion
Who are the IFA trying to kid? The recent protest in Tullamore has as much chance of getting Irish farmers...
Opinion
The IFA’s commitment to Irish cereal growers is laudable. It seems the organisation will do all in its power to...
Opinion
Dairy farmers have until September 15 to decide if they’d like to partake in the EU’s new scheme to lower...
Opinion
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) must now act in a meaningful way, given that the organisation has found Moscow to...
Opinion
This week the farming community has been rocked by three farm deaths within days of each other. Two men died...
Opinion
With Brexit now a reality, one of the key uncertainties is where UK retailers will source their food and a...
Opinion
Dairy farmers should take some respite in the fact that sentiment and commentary around on the dairy market took a notable...
Opinion
Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson put it very succinctly this Friday when he said that the Irish border automatically becomes...
Opinion
The Irish agri-food industry is too valuable to allow a small number of rogues to undermine it. And, such a...
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Later this month, on June 23, the British public goes to the polls to vote on Brexit or whether to...
Opinion
As the new Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, sits back in his chair at the top of the Department of...
Opinion
The lack of transparency around senior salaries in Ornua is the second time in recent months that Irish farmers must...
Opinion
There is no doubt about it but the grassroots members of IFA wanted change and they got it. Joe Healy,...