Agri Week podcast 26/10/2023
This week, Agri Week makes the trip to Castle Dargan for the IFA’s Connacht Regional Chairperson hustings. Ronan Flanagan gets to know the two candidates, Kinlough-based James Gallagher and Brendan Golden from Killala, who outline why they feel they should be elected Chairperson. Two members of the Current…
Leitrim IFA to hold AGM tonight, president to attend
The Leitrim branch of the IFA will hold their AGM will take place later in the Lough Allen in Drumshanbo. James Gallagher’s term as Leitrim Chairman will conclude at tonight’s event which will be attended by the President of the IFA Joe Healy. Ballinamore’s Dessie McHugh is expected to be…
Leitrim IFA Chairman calls for all interested parties to engage with forestry study
The IFA have welcomed the news that the Government will fund a study by UCD to assess the social, economic and environmental impact of afforestation in Co. Leitrim. The carrying out of such a study had been proposed by Leitrim IFA and was adopted as policy by IFA’s National…
Farmers taking water from rivers face new regulations
Farmers taking large volumes of water from rivers are set to be slapped with regulations under new laws next month. Environmental legal experts are suggesting that licences will soon be needed to take water from the nation’s rivers and that by the middle of November, a database will be…
Farmers welcome passage of anti-fracking bill
Farmers in County Leitrim are welcoming this week’s fracking bill by Sligo Leitrim TD Tony McLoughlin, which was passed unanimously in the Dail yesterday. Many farmers in the region joined the many protests and rally which have taken place on a number of occasion since the potential of fracking became…
McLoughlin says issue of vet lab being used as ‘political football’
A Sligo/Leitrim TD says he believes the issue of the veterinary laboratory in Sligo is being turned into a ‘political football.’ The Fine Gael deputy’s comments following reports in the media about the future of the laboratory. Deputy McLoughlin says he believes there is a certain amount of internal and…
Dog attacks on sheep continue
The head of the IFA in Leitrim is urging dog-owners to be aware at all times of where their dogs are. It follows what the organisation claims is the increasing problem of sheep-kills in the region. The biggest one in county Leitrim so far this year was when 35 sheep…