The Dealer ate and drank too much over the Christmas like everybody else but wanted to go on one last splurge last weekend and stumbled across a new restaurant in Blackrock, Co Louth. The Clermont is a new venture by none other than the Goodman family.
The directors of the company that lodged the planning application (Lorsden Unlimited) are Mark Goodman and Peter Brennan. The restaurant boasts a number of extras including a chauffeur service.
“Arrive in true chairman’s style, guests are invited to book our chauffeur-driven limo service launching in 2020. The chairman’s room is the highlight of the venue offering a discreet meeting and dining experience.”
The website describes The chairman’s room as “a celebration of 65 years dedicated to farming, food production and taking on the world from the smallest county in Ireland”. Beef is obviously prominent on the menu, which has a choice of “36-day chairman’s dry-aged sirloin” or “the chairman’s room signature Bellingham beef”.
No beefing up of dairy index
One of the proposals under industry discussion is that the beef component of the dairy breeding index should be increased to allow dairy farmers breed bigger and stronger cows and get a beefier calf. The harder-line dairy lads still ask what beef is doing in the dairy index at all.
On the other hand, the theory from the beefy side was that the dairy herd is too light, milking cows are too small and the calves are not worth buying.
The Dealer understands this came to a head just before Christmas and the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) and Teagasc has agreed to do more work before making any changes.
This is another way of saying there will be no changes to the dairy index as far as beef is concerned.
I understand it took phone calls from the top brass in Teagasc to the top brass in ICBF to reach this position and this was subsequently communicated to the ICBF board.
The Dealer understands that ICBF officials wanted to increase the weighting of beef in the EBI, but that changes were strongly resisted by Teagasc personnel based on a lack of conclusive measurements, both physical and economic. Instead, the dairy breeding debate has moved on to including a carbon sub-index, which I understand is also lacking real measurements and no doubt will create more hot air.
Golden era begins for IFA livestock committee
Two of the more important positions in the IFA were filled on Tuesday. Brendan Golden is the new livestock chair. He was vice-chair to Angus Woods, and now succeeds the Wicklow man, defeating Tim Harty from Tipperary.
Meanwhile, Paul O’Brien from Kilkenny takes on the challenges facing the environment committee.
O’Brien succeeds Thomas Cooney, emerging from a close contest with Chris Hayes from west Cork and Leitrim’s Eddie Mitchell.
The next post to be filled is the rural development chair position, with Joe Brady’s term now up.
It’s a three-way contest between Leitrim’s James Gallagher, Mayo’s Michael Bigggins and Roscommon man John Hanley.
Fine Gael backbenchers break ranks on climate change
You know an election is near when you see backbench politicians challenging their own party policies.
This week, a group of rural Fine Gael TDs and senators broke ranks to call for a major change in the Government’s climate change policy.
Offaly TD Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Cork senator Tim Lombard and Mayo senator Michelle Mulherin, who are all members of the Government’s climate action committee, called on the Government to follow the New Zealand approach and treat agriculture differently when it comes to carbon emissions targets.
Rural TD Michael Healy-Rae rushed to the rescue outside a funeral in Tralee, when he grabbed a fire extinguisher from the boot of his car and put out a fire in a nearby tractor.
The Kerryman reported that mourners were “left agog” to see Healy-Rae, who was in his dinner suit on the way to the Rose Ball, put out the flames and quietly turn to shake hands with the farmer who owned the offending tractor.
The Dealer wonders is Healy-Rae as quick quelling flames in the Dáil?
Michael Healy-Rae.
The Hoff to buy a farm in Wales
I hear that the former Baywatch and Nightrider star, David Hasselhoff has decided to buy a sheep farm and settle in Wales. His wife, Hayley Roberts, is from Glynneath, and ‘The Hoff’ has been seen going to watch the rugby with her on occasion. He sold his mansion in California for €1.76m for the Welsh move.
I’m not sure how much farming he’s actually going to do with just two sheep that he said he wanted. He wants to call them “Me” and “Ewe”. I think he should call them “Rack” and “Stew”.
I’m sure ministers Bruton and Creed were delighted with their colleagues challenging the party policy on climate change on the eve of an election.
The Dealer ate and drank too much over the Christmas like everybody else but wanted to go on one last splurge last weekend and stumbled across a new restaurant in Blackrock, Co Louth. The Clermont is a new venture by none other than the Goodman family.
The directors of the company that lodged the planning application (Lorsden Unlimited) are Mark Goodman and Peter Brennan. The restaurant boasts a number of extras including a chauffeur service.
“Arrive in true chairman’s style, guests are invited to book our chauffeur-driven limo service launching in 2020. The chairman’s room is the highlight of the venue offering a discreet meeting and dining experience.”
The website describes The chairman’s room as “a celebration of 65 years dedicated to farming, food production and taking on the world from the smallest county in Ireland”. Beef is obviously prominent on the menu, which has a choice of “36-day chairman’s dry-aged sirloin” or “the chairman’s room signature Bellingham beef”.
No beefing up of dairy index
One of the proposals under industry discussion is that the beef component of the dairy breeding index should be increased to allow dairy farmers breed bigger and stronger cows and get a beefier calf. The harder-line dairy lads still ask what beef is doing in the dairy index at all.
On the other hand, the theory from the beefy side was that the dairy herd is too light, milking cows are too small and the calves are not worth buying.
The Dealer understands this came to a head just before Christmas and the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation (ICBF) and Teagasc has agreed to do more work before making any changes.
This is another way of saying there will be no changes to the dairy index as far as beef is concerned.
I understand it took phone calls from the top brass in Teagasc to the top brass in ICBF to reach this position and this was subsequently communicated to the ICBF board.
The Dealer understands that ICBF officials wanted to increase the weighting of beef in the EBI, but that changes were strongly resisted by Teagasc personnel based on a lack of conclusive measurements, both physical and economic. Instead, the dairy breeding debate has moved on to including a carbon sub-index, which I understand is also lacking real measurements and no doubt will create more hot air.
Golden era begins for IFA livestock committee
Two of the more important positions in the IFA were filled on Tuesday. Brendan Golden is the new livestock chair. He was vice-chair to Angus Woods, and now succeeds the Wicklow man, defeating Tim Harty from Tipperary.
Meanwhile, Paul O’Brien from Kilkenny takes on the challenges facing the environment committee.
O’Brien succeeds Thomas Cooney, emerging from a close contest with Chris Hayes from west Cork and Leitrim’s Eddie Mitchell.
The next post to be filled is the rural development chair position, with Joe Brady’s term now up.
It’s a three-way contest between Leitrim’s James Gallagher, Mayo’s Michael Bigggins and Roscommon man John Hanley.
Fine Gael backbenchers break ranks on climate change
You know an election is near when you see backbench politicians challenging their own party policies.
This week, a group of rural Fine Gael TDs and senators broke ranks to call for a major change in the Government’s climate change policy.
Offaly TD Marcella Corcoran Kennedy, Cork senator Tim Lombard and Mayo senator Michelle Mulherin, who are all members of the Government’s climate action committee, called on the Government to follow the New Zealand approach and treat agriculture differently when it comes to carbon emissions targets.
Rural TD Michael Healy-Rae rushed to the rescue outside a funeral in Tralee, when he grabbed a fire extinguisher from the boot of his car and put out a fire in a nearby tractor.
The Kerryman reported that mourners were “left agog” to see Healy-Rae, who was in his dinner suit on the way to the Rose Ball, put out the flames and quietly turn to shake hands with the farmer who owned the offending tractor.
The Dealer wonders is Healy-Rae as quick quelling flames in the Dáil?
Michael Healy-Rae.
The Hoff to buy a farm in Wales
I hear that the former Baywatch and Nightrider star, David Hasselhoff has decided to buy a sheep farm and settle in Wales. His wife, Hayley Roberts, is from Glynneath, and ‘The Hoff’ has been seen going to watch the rugby with her on occasion. He sold his mansion in California for €1.76m for the Welsh move.
I’m not sure how much farming he’s actually going to do with just two sheep that he said he wanted. He wants to call them “Me” and “Ewe”. I think he should call them “Rack” and “Stew”.
I’m sure ministers Bruton and Creed were delighted with their colleagues challenging the party policy on climate change on the eve of an election.
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