Calls for fair penalty point system for fisheries
Calls are being made on the Minister for Agriculture and the Marine, Donegal TD Charlie McConalogue to ensure a fair penalty points scheme is introduced for fishermen. The calls on Minister McConalogue are being made…
Minister McConalogue intervenes in TB row after emotional video by Leitrim farmer
If you were tuned into yesterday evening’s (Tuesday) farm bulletin on Ocean FM, you would have heard the heart-rending plight of Leitrim farmer Kevin Comiskey after he received a letter from the Department of Agriculture…
VIDEO: Leitrim farmer distraught after being advised to cull herd
A Co. Leitrim farmer has voiced his anger at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine after receiving a TB Herd History Record Statement which advised him to cull all of his animals in…
Covid-19 low-cost loan scheme
The IFA has today welcomed the opening of the new €2bn COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme to provide farmers with access to low cost loans as they respond to the impacts of the pandemic. John Lynch…
0309 Agri Week
On this week’s edition of Agri Week Sean O Donoghue the CEO of the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation, reacts to the new penalty points introduced for Fishermen. The IFA President Tim Cullinan has…
Huge anger with Fishermen over penalty legislation
There has been widespread anger in the fishing industry to the news that the Taoiseach (who had also been acting minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine before yesterday) Michael Martin has enacted a controversial…
IFA President would welcome McConlogue appointment
A leading farm official says he would welcome the appointment of Donegal TD, Charlie McConlogue as Agriculture Minister. The Dáil will return this afternoon after the Summer recess was cut short. The post-golf…