Beef lands farmers in trouble

Following GSOC, Garda whistleblowers, Rehab salaries, ‘Pantigate’, and Portlaoise Hospital, the beef industry was the latest to come under the microscope of an Oireachtas committee.

TDs and senators highlighted “depression among farmers in the beef industry”.

“The collapse in prices is pushing many people over the edge financially”. . . “In recent times, they have been attending my clinic due to social welfare issues because of the collapse in beef prices,” said Senator Pat O’Neill, himself a beef farmer in Co Kilkenny.