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AROUND €1 MILLION has been put into a fund by the Irish Farmers’ Association to help farmers suffering from shortages of fodder following the unseasonally cold winter.
It will be spent on a 3,000 tonne shipment of fodder from the northwest of France that is due to arrive in Ireland late next week.
John Bryan, IFA President, told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that this might be the first of many more shipments as more needs to be done to tackle the results of the “terrible summer and the longest winter on record”.
“Three-thousand tonnes in the overall context is small. We might have to fill another boat to help people until normal growth returns,” he added.
Agribusinesses are going to help distribute the fodder by travelling around Ireland and selling it for cost price.
Bryan acknowledged that there are a number of cash flow problems on farms at the moment and has called on the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney to do more for those who fall outside of the Government scheme.
“We are asking the minister to be more proactive and put in more resources into this,” said Bryan. “We have a crisis on our hands.”
Bryan acknowledged that the grass was beginning to grow now, particularly in the south and east, and less so in the north and west. But he explained that grass growth would usually start in mid-March, so beginning in mid-April is very late for farmers.
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@Gary Sheahan, that’s all very well but its a paid for article. One of many that this senator places on here. It’s effectively canvassing dressed up as public interest articles.. the level of patronisation is actually sickening at this stage.
@alandel: honest question, how do you know it’s paid for, don’t the normally flag that by tagging ‘Sponsored’ on it?
@David Memery: he made it up.
@alandel: Can a woman be patronising?
@David Memery: at the very minimum it is a free platform for a senator who is not chosen by the public and whom in this instance has a clear political bias.
Well I thought it a brave article to openly post. If it helps one young woman ( or man) to overcome body issues then it was worthwhile. I don’t know her but I’m sure she does other positive things in her role as Senator. Fair play to her.
@Gary Sheahan: when i think of bravery i think of omaha beach. I do not picture an overpaid politician advertising herself to the public.
As a woman in my 60s who has never voiced a comment before I have to say I loved your piece, Lynn. Our greatest challenge is ” stilling the voice in our own heads”. Well done.
Is it time to abolish the Seanad?
We need leaders who think of more things than their own body every waking moment. Ireland cannot afford to pay for this.
@Morning Gus: Unfortunately we had a chance a few years ago to abolish the Seanad and we bottled it in favour of promises of reform (which may have happened I’m not sure I care). Either way it now continues to be a waste of resources and somewhere the Taoiseach can plant cronies between elections.
We have amazing bodies. We should be proud of how resilient they are and grateful for the lovely babies they are capable of making.We should be delighted they’re still knocking around and not in the ground and that’s for sure.
Great article, Lynn
Lynn, you look lovely, genuinely.
Concentrate on putting an end to imperialism
Sanctimonious claptrap…..and a right old load of pretentious nonsense……
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