THE Department of Agriculture will assist with a study to assess the possibility of redeveloping the sugar beet industry, an Oireachtas committee heard yesterday.

THE Department of Agriculture has started a process of local office closures and job cuts which will save it €30 million per year.

THE Department of Agriculture has admitted there are still consignments of contaminated Irish pork in circulation around the globe which it has not yet traced.

THE first industrial wood chip boiler in Clare is expected to be installed before the end of the year as part of a major renewable energy project.