Good week for…

  • North Tipperary IFA chairman Tim Cullinan, whose campaign to highlight the high rate of inspections and penalties applied by the Nenagh office is finally bearing fruit.
  • Anyone with yearling bulls to sell, as Purcell Brothers are about to load their next boat for Turkey.

  • Justice, as a Laois-based rural crime gang got jail time for a series of crimes.
  • Bioenergy as Minister Denis Naughten secured Cabinet approval to createBord na Móna Bioenergy.
  • Dairy farmers, who pushed milk output up by 7% and around €19m for the month of June.

    • Bad week for…

  • Aidan O’Driscoll, secretary general of the Department of Agriculture, who has been called to answer questions on farm inspections by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture.
  • Farmers who use the rush spray MCPA as a potential ban on its use looms.
  • All farmers, as they are warned again about possible cuts to the CAP budget from 2025 onwards.
  • Victims of rural crime all over Ireland, including one Cavan man whose 16 cattle were stolen, Bill Carroll who had doses for 700 cattle taken and Pallaskenry College, whose haybarn was burned down.