Turning point Farmers’ Rights Campaign to be  recalled at 2pm in Bantry today

At 2pm in Bantry, Co Cork, today, farmers are invited to gather to remember an event which paved the way for the new era of recognition for Irish agriculture in the late 1960s.

It was then that prices for farm products started to improve, in the run-up to joining the European Economic Community in 1973.

Farmers left behind the days when 40% of them earned about £5 a week, and the Government repeatedly refused to negotiate meaningfully with the National Farmers Association.