IFA clash over Partnership

IFA leader John Dillon has defended the Association's continued involvement in the Sustaining Progress national partnership, during a public clash with a county IFA Chairman who challenged "non-delivery' of the Partnership for farmers.

Limerick IFA chairman Michael O'Flynn became embroiled in a verbal exchange with the President of the Association when John Dillon returned to his home county as guest speaker at the Annual General Meeting of Limerick IFA.

In a blistering attack on IFA support for Sustaining Progress, O'Flynn said farmers were not prepared to take any more from a Government who had lured them into the agreement, but hadn't delivered on commitments.