Members of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) are taking part in a 48-hour demonstration, which began yesterday, at 14 plants around the country.

The food group at the heart of the horsemeat controversy earlier this year is suing a Polish supplier and has accepted a financial settlement from another British supplier over the scandal.

The owner of a meat trading company is to sue the factory at the centre of the horsemeat contamination scandal for defamation.

Burger King is partnering with the Kepak Group to supply its Irish and British restaurants with beef.

Garda investigators have a major task on their hands to establish when and where Polish beef was fraudulently replaced with horsemeat.

From the top of the agri-business tree in the 1980s, through to the turbulent 90s and his subsequent resurgence in the beef industry, Larry Goodman will face the latest meat crisis in his usual fashion — head on, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Test results are expected today which will show whether horse meat was confined to one batch of burgers or was knowingly imported by the beef factory which made them.

As the prices of finished beef and summer grazing stock continue to rise around the country, the one question that everyone in the industry is asking is, how long can this trend be maintained?

LARRY Goodman’s beef processing firm, Irish Food Processors (IFP), has acquired British sausage producer WA Turner for an undisclosed sum.