IFA: Politicians ignoring impact of sterling slump

“The biggest threat to Irish farming in half a century” was how the Irish Farmers Association president Joe Healy yesterday described the impact of the Brexit negotiations on incomes in the sector.

Addressing the IFA’s 62nd annual general meeting in Dublin, he warned that agriculture and food cannot become a battleground between Brussels and London.

“There are too many farm livelihoods and jobs at stake. Politics cannot be allowed override our fundamental economic interests,” he said.