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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…
European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Phil Hogan has been criticised by independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice regarding recent comments about suckler farmers.…
Concerns regarding the media response to the performance of the Green Party in the local and European elections have been raised by independent…
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine’s budget for temporary veterinary inspectors (TVIs) has been increased by €2.8 million for 2019, according…
An independent ‘committee of scrutiny’ should be established to ‘hold the Government’s feet to the fire’ on the National Broadband Plan, according to…
A Roscommon-Galway TD has called for clarity on the finer details of the young farmer loan scheme in relation to the criteria for…
A meeting scheduled for Easter Monday, April 22, will discuss the “severe pressure” farmers are under, as well as the challenges in rural…
Some 1,400t of Irish beef worth €2.8 million was exported to China in 2018, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed…
