Farmers start receiving single farm and disadvantaged area payments

A STEADILY increasing number of farmers report they have been receiving their disadvantaged area and single farm payments this week.

Among them was Pat Enright, a dairy farmer from Castleisland in Kerry, who appeared in Monday’s Irish Examiner while still awaiting an €8,900 payment. When Pat went to view his bank account on Tuesday morning the cheque had arrived.

Mr Enright said yesterday: “After the article appeared, I got a phone call from our IFA county chairman, James McCarthy, on Monday to tell me that the money was in the bank. It wasn’t there when I went to look on Monday, but I suppose it must have made it into the account after midnight.