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Beef stock: Kilkenny shoppers set to feel effects of protests

By Kilkenny Now 13th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY shoppers are about to feels the effects of the beef crisis after a supermarket announced they are having difficulties sourcing Irish meat supplies. Aldi today announced they will be re-labelling some Irish beef as “processed in the UK” due to the ongoing crisis in the Irish beef industry. The German supermarket […]

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300 laid off temporarily at Kilkenny meat plant as owners blame blockades

By Kilkenny Now 11th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THREE-hundred workers were laid-off overnight at a meat processing plant in county Kilkenny as a result of the beef crisis. Dawn Meats in Grannagh, informed the 300 staff yesterday evening their jobs were being cut. Meat Industry Ireland (MII), the umbrella group representing the meat processors, says the latest lay-offs mean over […]

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Kilkenny meat processors will not attend beef talks until blockades end

By Kilkenny Now 9th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE beef crisis looks set to rumble on as one of the main players in the dispute has refused to take part in talks aimed at resolving the pricing issues. Meat Industry Ireland (MII), who represent management of two plants in Kilkenny, Dawn Meats in Grannagh and ABP Foods in Ferrybank, confirmed […]

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Beef dispute talks set to resume Monday

By Kilkenny Now 5th September 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY TALKS which could end the blockade of meat processing facilities in Kilkenny are set to resume next Monday. Agriculture Michael Creed confirmed this morning talks aimed at resolving the beef crisis between farmers and meat processors will resume next week. “It is clear that this can only happen if processors and protesters […]

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New body for beef industry could end protests at Kilkenny meat plants – Minister

By Kilkenny Now 30th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE creation of a new way of regulating the relationship between all stakeholders in the beef crisis could bring to an end the blockade of meat processing plants in Kilkenny. The Government, according to Junior Minister and Kilkenny TD John Paul Phelan, is looking at ways of creating a body that will […]

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Kilkenny meat plant protestors defy High Court ruling

By Kilkenny Now 28th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY KILKENNY farmers, unhappy with the outcome of beef crisis talks, have ignored a High Court ruling stopping them blockading meat factories. Up to 80 farmers contiune protesting outside two plants in Kilkenny this morning, the Dawn Meats facility at Grannagh and the Anglo-Beef Processors (ABP) Food Group plant at Ferrybank. Yesterday the […]

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Kilkenny meat processors win court injunction against beef protestors

By Kilkenny Now 27th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE owners of two Kilkenny meat plants have been granted High Court injunctions stopping beef farmers from picketing their factories. Dawn Meats and Anglo-Beef Processors (ABP) Food Group were successful in their application to the High-Court this afternoon for a temporary injunction restraining a number of named protesters from blockading their plants.

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Picket suspended outside Kilkenny meat processing plant

By Kilkenny Now 10th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY FARMERS who had been picketing a meat processing site in south Kilkenny over beef prices have called off their protest for the time being. Last night representatives of the Beef Plan Movement and Meat Industry Ireland (MII) accepted a proposal aimed at ending the blockades at meat processing plants across the country. […]

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UPDATE: Protesting beef farmers threatened with legal action

By Kilkenny Now 8th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE MEAT processors have threatened the Beef Plan Movement with legal action to prevent the farmers inflicting what they call further damage to the Irish beef industry. Earlier today Dawn Meats laid-off 150 temporary workers at their plant in Grannagh in south Kilkenny in response to the ongoing Beef Plan Movement protests. […]

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150 workers laid-off in major escalation of beef crisis protests

By Kilkenny Now 8th August 2019 0

BY COLIN BARTLEY Dawn Meats has laid-off 150 temporary workers at their facility in Grannagh, South Kilkenny as a result of on-going Beef Movement Plan protests. The protests started ten days ago with thousands of farmers picketing meat processing facilities around the country.  Protesters turned up at the Grannagh facility last Thursday. Since then, up […]