More than 30 Heads of State, UN representatives and ambassadors are to attend a special summit in Cork to highlight challenges small island nations face from climate change and to galvanise efforts to protect the world’s seas.

The EU’s new scheme to pay dairy farmers to produce less milk can increase milk prices much earlier than expected, and get farmers back into a profitable situation, said ICMSA president John Comer.

New measures introduced under the EU Aid Package at national level should be co-funded, innovative, and young-farmer proofed, according to Macra na Feirme national president Seán Finan.

Marek Szepietowski tells Trish Dromey how the firm he founded is meeting the EU-driven demand for quality training manuals.