There’s been more than a little disquiet in Bantry and Galway Bay in recent months at the prospect of new, organic salmon fish farms being allowed into the local waters.

AS someone who helped organise the first public debate in Ireland on GM food/crops in 1997, I find it fascinating that 10 years on we’re still going in circles.

Opponents of GM foods have slammed the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to allow trials of genetically-modified potatoes in Co Meath.