Late applications cost 224 farmers their basic payment in 2019

However, Co Dublin farmers were hardest hit, with 65 of the county’s 609 farmers incurring penalties (10.7% of farmers).

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Farmers in Cork, Waterford, and Tipperary were among those more likely to have their basic payments reduced by penalties in 2019.