Up to 70 local people turned out “to comb” a field in North Kerry where 20 cattle died after ingesting lead in the past week.

HUGE progress has been made in negotiations with the Department of Social and Family Affairs and the Revenue on spouses’ partnerships as a means of providing women working on farms with a non-means-tested pension in their own right, the IFA disclosed yesterday.

GOD must have been in the IFA, judging by the religious overtones that gripped the RDS yesterday for the association’s golden jubilee celebrations.