Limerick IFA Executive revolts over inspections

INTENSE pressure within IFA to intensify the campaign against unfair farm inspections has come to a head in the association’s Limerick Executive.

They have unanimously summoned IFA’s President, Padraig Walsh, Deputy President Derek Deane, and Chief Executive Michael Berkery to meet them to address their concerns over inspections.

At a lively meeting, Executive member Pat Coleman, Kilmeedy led a challenge to the organisation’s leaders to do more about what he claimed is a “concerted campaign to put farmers out of business”. He took to his feet after Limerick IFA Chairman Michael Roche presented a list of the 1,450 items which can be checked during a farm inspection.