Ireland badly hit by Russian food ban

Ireland is one of only three EU member states which suffered a trade setback of more than 70% due to the Russian embargo on EU food imports.

Last week, official EU statistics for EU-28 agri-food exports showed an overall 41% fall in exports, when comparing the August to February period in 2013-14 to 2014-15.

But Irish exports fell 70% in value, from 119m to 36m.