IFA threatens EU protest

IRISH Farmers should lead a mass protest across the EU to protest at demands for new talks on the Common Agricultural Policy, it was claimed yesterday.

Britain and France are at loggerheads over Tony Blair's demands for the 2002 deal on agricultural produce to be renegotiated.

But Irish Farmers'Association (IFA) deputy president Ruaidhri Deasy yesterday said that any backtracking on CAP would lead to "total and absolute uproar".