IFA agrees to collaboration with Irish Countrywomen’s Association

The Irish Farmers’ Association and the Irish Countrywomen’s Association have agreed to collaborate on areas of common concern.

Their presidents, Eddie Downey and Liz Wall, agreed on the move at a meeting in the Irish Farm Centre in Dublin this week.

IFA Farm Family Committee chairwoman Maura Canning, who attended the meeting, said: “We have cross-membership and many of our issues and priorities are very similar. Farm safety and rural isolation are two of the key issues we have been working hard on individually.