Last month, Agriculture Minister Michael Creed celebrated the latest in a long line of derogations from the EU Nitrates Directive.

Farmers will have to fence off cattle to prevent them accessing rivers and streams as part of new measures to improve water quality.

Farmers will have to fence off cattle to prevent them accessing rivers and streams as part of new measures to improve water quality. 

Over the weekend, British Labour party leader Ed Miliband warned that climate change is now “an issue of national security that has the potential not only to destabilise and cause conflict between regions of the world, but to destroy the homes, livelihoods, and businesses of millions of British people”.

FUNDING has been expanded to cover a further four years of research into the Teagasc-led Agricultural Catchments Programme, an analysis of soil usage in six different study areas.

FARM groups welcomed the progress unveiled yesterday by the Government in its nitrates negotiations with the EU Commission.

A EUROPEAN Court of Justice ruling on water pollution in Ireland could make it even more difficult to get planning permission for one-off houses in the Killarney area, it has been claimed.

IT may be a case of any port in a storm but in these spectacular times we’ll take any slip of good news where we can find it.

Fine Gael TD Denis Naughten has slammed the Government failure to launch an information campaign on the implementation of the EU Nitrates Directive.