Protests highlight growing discontent in horticulture and forestry sectors

There are currently 6,000 forestry licences backlogged in the Department

Val Farrell, Chair IFA’s Irish Hardy Nursery Stock Association; IFA President, Tim Cullinan; and Paul Brophy, Chairman IFA Horticulture Committee, protesting alongside horticulture workers outside the Convention centre on Tuesday. Picture: Finbarr O’Rourke. 

Growing discontent in the horticulture and forestry sectors led to protests by those impacted this week.

On Tuesday horticultural growers demonstrated outside the Convention Centre where the Dail was sitting to highlight the challenges they are facing as a result of restrictions on the harvesting of peat.