TDs target ex gratia Tralee Beef deal

Stephen Cadogan on the latest chapter in Munster farmers’ fight to recover up to €3.5 million for livestock sold to Tralee Beef and Lamb.

CATTLE farmers in the south west have won some powerful allies in their fight to recover up to €3.5 million left owing to them after the Tralee Beef and Lamb company collapsed in 2001. An IFA-led presentation of their plight to the Oireachtas Committee for Finance and the Public Service has brought the issue back into the limelight.

And with the families of two TDs among the aggrieved creditors, public representatives have vested interests as well as the interests of 300 farmers to defend.