Late last month Slaney Foods International unlimited Company secured injunctions against persons it claimed had been blockading its premises at Ryland Lower, Bunclody Co Wexford.

The holding company of Slaney Foods - one of the meat processors being picketed by farmers as part of an ongoing protest over beef prices - generated a pre-tax profit of €3.12m last year, newly-filed accounts show.

The Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed, has announced that the Chinese authorities will this week confirm access for Irish beef exports to China.

Increasing live cattle exports is still seen by farmers as the primary way to boost Ireland’s beef sector.

IFA Livestock Chairman Angus Woods led an IFA delegation which recently brought serious allegations against beef processors to senior officials in the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC).

Of the 870 applicants to join the Organic Farming Scheme in 2015, 220 farmers applied to rejoin. One of these was Limerick man Thomas Finucane.

Dermot Desmond heads the list of Irish property investors with a personal fortune estimated at €1.7bn, according to trade magazine Estates Gazette’s rich list.

FOOD and drink exports to Germany rose by 37.5% year on year in the first five months of this year, according to Bord Bia.

THE country’s largest sheep meat business, Irish Country Meats, has acquired Belgium’s leading lamb processing company for an undisclosed sum.

FIVE non-executive directors announced their resignation from the board of Anglo Irish Bank yesterday, ahead of the Government’s expected formal takeover of the lender later this week.

SLANEY FOODS achieved sales of close to €200 million in its last financial year as profits before tax rose to €3.7m, up from €2.6m a year earlier.