IRELAND can restore the EU’s sugar self-sufficiency and reduce costly imports, promoters of Irish sugar interests have told the European Commission.

WITH rising energy prices and fuel supply uncertainties, Natural Resources Minister Noel Dempsey is to be complimented on his scheme to promote production of 163 million litres of biofuel from indigenous sources.

IN school, we learned of the importance of the family as the core of society. We also were taught that family farms producing staple foods were essential to maintain a viable economy, especially in a time of international uncertainty.

THE recent RTÉ Prime Time revelations of planning aberrations and malpractice fill one with contempt for a system whereby parliament passes laws which are then bypassed by so-called authorities in whom control is vested.