Single payment is big issue for Macra candidates

BALLOT papers for the Macra na Feirme presidential election have been issued to the 250 clubs eligible to vote.

The papers must be returned by 1 pm on April 5 when they will be sorted and counted at the Irish Farm Centre in Dublin.

Thomas Honner's successor as the next president of Macra, which has 8,000 members countrywide, will be announced that evening.