Good guys and bad guys

SENIOR Teagasc researchers were the good guys in the past week of the Government’s “How not to Enact New Legislation” soap opera.

If the IFA decide to lift their boycott of Teagasc anytime in the next 12 months, it will be thanks to the straight talking of their most knowledgeable experts.

These public servants have lived up to their name, shedding the only bit of light for farmers on the Nitrates Directive, giving out real information instead of the baseless reassurances from the Ministers for the Environment and Agriculture that everything will be fine.