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Kilkenny meat processors win court injunction against beef protestors

By Kilkenny Now 27th August 2019 Post a comment

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 […]

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Beef protests escalate outside Kilkenny processing plant

By Kilkenny Now 6th August 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY Today saw a major escalation of the protest outside a meat processing plant in Kilkenny. Up to 60 farmers supporting the Beef Plan Movement are protesting outside the gates of Dawn Meats in Grannagh, Co. Kilkenny today. The protesters were trying to prevent trucks from entering the facility on the banks of […]

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Beef farmers demonstrate outside Kilkenny meat plant

By Kilkenny Now 31st July 2019 0

By COLIN BARTLEY THE NATIONWIDE protest over meat prices has come to a Kilkenny meat processing plant. The Beef Plan Movement brought their protest to the gates of Dawn Meats in Grannagh, Co. Kilkenny overnight. The protest plans to hit the wider agricultural industry financially by refusing to go to local co-ops; refusing to sell […]

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BREAKING: Kilkenny grandad killled in horror farm accident involving septic tank

By Kilkenny Now 17th April 2019 0

A SOUTH Kilkenny pensioner has died in a horrific farm accident involving a septic tank. Johnny Phelan, from Kilmacow and who was in his 70s, suffered fatal injuries while he was emptying a septic tank at a farm in Ferrybank yesterday morning. Mr Phelan was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was taken to […]