Sit-in at Department of Agriculture offices continue
Day three of a sit-in at the Department of Agriculture offices is underway. The protest is by tillage farmers who are not happy with reports of a proposed cap of €5000 on the amount farmers would be paid from the government’s crisis fund. The tillage crisis fund was announced last…
Farmers ready for second night of sit-in at Department offices
Farmers from the West of Ireland intend to spend their second night at the Department of Agriculture offices in Dublin tonight in protest at the proposed tillage crisis fund that was announced last year Grain farmers from the west of Ireland have been holding a sit-in at at the Department…
Grain farmers continue sit-in at Department of Agriculture
Grain farmers from the west of Ireland are holding a sit-in at at the Department of Agriculture. A number of farmers from the west have been protesting there since yesterday afternoon. It’s over the proposed tillage crisis fund that was announced last year. It’s reported that a €5,000 maximum payment…