The Beef Plan Movement has “stepped away officially” from the protest at Kepak Clare in Tiermaclane, Ennis, Co Clare.

Enda Fingleton, southeast regional chair, and Dermot O’Brien, southwest regional chair, have both confirmed that the people protesting are doing so as individual farmers.

“Two people there were not adhering to our guidelines so Beef Plan has stepped away officially,” Fingleton told the Irish Farmers Journal.

“They are individual farmers protesting now.”