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A total of 715 farmers have withdrawn their applications from the Beef Emergency Aid Measure (BEAM) scheme to date, according to Minister for…
RTÉ’s schedule of programming covering climate change, which has been running throughout this week, has been criticised as being “unfair on rural Ireland”.…
The ESB is “turning its back” on the midlands with its decision to close two power plants, according to independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice,…
The latest round of approvals for 14 additional meat factories in Ireland to begin exporting beef to China must bear fruit for farmers,…
To date in 2019, the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine has conducted 499 unannounced inspections in 32 beef factories in relation to…
Bord na Móna’s announcement on the next phase of its restructuring towards decarbonisation has been criticised by independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice. The announcement…
It is disappointing that calls to date to extend the deadline for slurry spreading have – so far – been denied, according to…
The family farm is “under threat like never before” because of the ongoing dispute, according to independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice. Commenting on the…
It is highly regrettable that individual farmers have been named in High Court injunctions brought forward by certain meat processors, according to independent…
Government funding for environmental lobby groups should be cut if “the constant stream of objections to proposals continues”, according to one TD. Independent…
The Department for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has come in for criticism from a TD in the west of the country due…
The decision by members of Meat Industry Ireland (MII) to resort to legal action in an effort to remove protests from their gates…
It has been claimed by a prominent rural TD that some Bord na Móna personnel are driving an “agenda” to let staff go.…
Yesterday’s protest in Dublin organised by the Beef Plan Movement “needs to be the beginning of a rural revival”, according to a Roscommon-Galway…
A number of rural TDs have strongly criticised the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, for remarks he made yesterday, Wednesday, July 3, in the Dáil.…
Concerns regarding whispers from sources close to Government that it will soon be mandatory for farmers to plant some forestry on their land…
The Government’s Climate Action Plan has been criticised as a “savage attack” on rural Ireland by independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice, noting that its…
The inclusion of a ‘production reduction’ condition in the distribution of the €100 million beef aid package has been heavily criticised by one…
