Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney says he’s not going to rush into making a decision on the planning application for a controversial...
FARM leaders have expressed serious concerns that the meat plants are trying to pull back on the main points agreed at the Beef Forum in relation...
CLEARANCE for individual commonage farmers to apply for the new GLAS environmental scheme will be the key to resolving the dispute between the Hill Farmers for...
GALWAY farmers are set to achieve an injection of over €17 million in Disadvantaged Areas Payments, DAS, announced on Wednesday by the Minister for Agriculture, Simon...
A ‘CLEAR the air’ statement last week by Agriculture Minister, Simon Coveney, on the hill/commonage crux is only ‘a step in the right direction’ and doesn’t...
A BEEF meeting in Navan this week where ‘there was skin and hair flying’ could spark an autumn of protest across the country with the factories...
The Department of Agriculture is to monitor a Loughrea woman to ensure she does not resume operations of her animal rescue centre after she was convicted...
A visit by a senior Government Minister to inspect some of the €18 million plus worth of storm damage in Co Galway last weekend has resulted...