Lamb prices claim is ‘misleading’

RETAILERS have accused the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association of grossly misleading consumers on lamb prices.

The group claimed during a giveaway lamb protest in Dublin on Wednesday that sheep farmers are on average getting between €66 and €76 for a lamb at the factory gates but that the same lamb, once boned, will retail at between €240 and €270.

Retail Ireland, the IBEC group that represents the Irish retail sector, rejected the association’s claims on retail lamb prices as groundless.