Irish Family Farm Rights Group's campaign for removal of livestock movement rule gains momentum

Picture: Martin Desmond, Innishannon, Thomas Gunning, managing director of Farm Rights Group, Donie Shine, the group’s chairman, and George Bowers, Westmeath livestock purchaser, at Bandon Mart on Monday.

The Irish Family Farm Rights Group is mounting a national campaign for the removal of a livestock movement rule, which the organisation claims is unjust and not fair to farmers, and not appropriate to farming methods used here in Ireland, writes Denis Lehane.