Mattie McGrath seeks to protect farmland from racing groups

Bring back the Land Commission or some form of agency to stop certain large racing syndicates swallowing up farms in Tipperary, east Cork, west Waterford and elsewhere.

That was the plea made in the Dáil last week by Tipperary Independent TD Mattie McGrath, who said it is terrible that small farmers are being “bought out and bulldozed out of the way”.

He recalled that the Land Commission was introduced to disseminate large estates in the 1940s. It did a good job.