Rachel Martin: Bord Bia row is no longer about beef — it’s about who agri policy is for

At the risk of sounding like Shania Twain, little about the Bord Bia and Larry Murrin controversy has impressed me much this week.

As things stand, Mr Murrin is due to appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture in the coming days. If his recent public comments are any indication of what we can expect to hear, his position is clear: he believes he has done nothing wrong and points to decades spent building a successful agri-food business that is a major buyer of Irish beef on a scale comparable with countries.

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