Irish Cattle and Sheepfarmers’ Association (ICSA) president Malcolm Thompson has today called for the Doha round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks to be scrapped completely, calling it "obsolete and no longer relevant to the current global situation".

I WISH to reply to a few points raised by James McGrath in his letter headlined ‘Farm subsidies used as a weapon against developing countries’ (Irish Examiner letters, December 21).