A COUNTY Kilkenny farm is to host one of the four main events of Farm Safety Week 2019 this evening. This evening Andrew Phelan is hosting a farm safety evening on his farm at Ballytarsney, Mooncoin Co. Kilkenny. Farming continues to have one of the poorest safety records of any sector in Ireland. Last year, […]
By COLIN BARTLEY EU Commissioner Phil Hogan is facing a fight for his political life in the wake of the bitter fallout over the controversial trade deal with South America. And the former Kilkenny TD is facing opposition from within his own party and constituency ranks after Fine Gael’s Carlow-based Deputy Pat Deering called on […]
IRELAND’S EU Commissioner – the former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan – has come under fierce criticism from Irish farmers over a highly controversial new trade deal with South America. Under the deal, which the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has described as “reckless and wrong”, up to 99,000 tonnes of South American beef will come into […]
EU Commissioner and former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan has defended the number of meetings he has held with local lobby groups. The former minister has been named among a handful of EU commissioners who had a “disproportionately large” number of meetings with lobbyists and business groups from their home countries, according to a group that […]
THE Irish EU Commissioner and former Kilkenny TD Phil Hogan is putting together a new deal to come to the aid of Irish farmers in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Under the deal, farmers in Kilkenny and throughout the rest of the country would be eligible to avail of hundreds of millions of euros […]
KILKENNY carnivores will be left with a sinking feeling in their stomachs at the publication of major new report which says Irish people will have to cut their meat consumption by a whopping 90% in order to avert a climate catastrophe. The research by 20 influential food scientists, published in the Lancet Medical Journal, says […]