Here is a thing that most Irish people do not understand: Higher energy prices have been the long-term policy of the Irish state for about twenty years.
ICSA: ‘Betrayal of commitment to Irish farmers’
Need for farmers to ‘prioritise their health and wellbeing’
They came for the Dutch farmers but I was not a Dutch farmer…
‘Get its act together’
CAP Budget
CAP payments
GAEC 2 rules could be ‘catastrophic for farmers’
Monaghan farmer on bird flu threat
“If we don’t produce it here, it will be produced in other countries with a much bigger environmental impact.”
From being the least treed country in Europe, we are about to become the first country in the EU to be felling far more trees than we are planting
The truth is, the IFA lacked basic foresight then, much as it does today.