Fury spreads over laboratory transfers

FARMER anger at the relocation of Department of Agriculture facilities has spread from Cork to Limerick.

Some Cork farmers are still unhappy to see DVO offices moving from the city to Fermoy, while Macroom gets the Regional Veterinary Laboratory and other veterinary services, instead of the DVO offices, which were proposed for Macroom in the Government's decentralisation plan.

But the domino effect has spread to the mid-West, which is to lose its Regional Veterinary Laboratory at Knockalisheen, near Limerick.