McConalogue gets Dail support for Bill on tillage emergency fund
There was cross party support for a motion by Donegal TD Charlie McConalogue today calling for an emergency fund for tillage farmers to be set up. It follows the particularly wet summer last year. Farmers in a number of counties including Donegal and Roscommon were among the worst affected. They…
Tillage farmers to protest outside Dail
Tillage farmers still hope to get an emergency aid package as they plan a march on the Dail this afternoon. Many grain farmers in Donegal, Mayo and other western counties were unable to harvest their crops last autumn following a prolonged period of wet weather. Following a meeting with the Minister…
Donegal among counties worst affected by poor tillage harvest
The Irish Farmers’ Association will march on Leinster House this afternoon, calling for the Government to set up a crisis fund for tillage farmers. Many grain farmers, in the west of the country, weren’t able to harvest their crops last autumn after a prolonged period of wet weather destroyed their…
CF drug campaigners from north west in Dublin for Dail protest
Supporters from the north west of the campaign to have the Cystic Fibrosis drug Orkambi made more widely available in Ireland are gathering in Dublin for a protest outside the Dail this afternoon. The demonstration comes after a report in The Sunday Business Post revealed the HSE is set to…
PBPA Organise Protest for Iranian man on hunger strike
A second demonstration is to be held outside of Globe House in Sligo later today. People Before Profit are organising it in support of a middle eastern man on a hunger strike protest inside the asylum centre. There are government plans in place to deport the man to Iran where…
It’s time for Sligo to ‘stand up and shout stop’
The New Year may see a protest outside the Dail over the lack of investment in and promotion of Sligo town and county. Sligo businessman Anthony Gray, the current president of the Restaurants Association of Ireland, says he will be contacting others to organise the protest. He told Ocean FM…