By supporting family farming you protect rural Ireland

As president of ICMSA, the State’s specialist dairy farm organisation, I take any report on invigorating our rural economy very seriously.

My association welcomed the launch of the Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas report, and I’m delighted to say that after a degree of close study we’re very happy to acknowledge that there seems to be a great deal in it of real value and insight.

As retail patterns switch online. and as physical retailing and consumption increasingly moves into suburban or urban retail parks, the decline is most pronounced in towns within a handy drive of the bigger urban centres.

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