Person: Charlie Reilly

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Sheep and suckler farmer elected

A FULL-TIME sheep and suckler farmer from Shillelagh in Co Wicklow is the new president of the 8,000-member Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association.

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Only farm group to support CAP reform elects a new president this weekend

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Old farming ways past sell-by date

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Walsh takes aim at CAP reforms as battle begins

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Farming groups reject reforms

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Farmers and Government resume talks on partnership

ICSA urges Govt to focus on CAP reform

The Irish Cattle Suppliers Association has called on Agriculture Minister Joe Walsh to acknowledge that reform of the EU's Common Agriculture Policy is the best means to secure improvements in living standards for farmers.

Thu, 16 Jan, 2003

CAP claims are wrong, says Fischler

DOOMSAYERS who claimed the proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy would make the Irish beef industry shut down or British roast beef disappear, have got it wrong, EU Farm Commissioner Franz Fischler said yesterday.

Thu, 16 Jan, 2003

Farmers unite in campaign over continuing income fall

ALL farmer organisations have united behind IFA’s family farm survival campaign.

Thu, 09 Jan, 2003

Farmers group backs tractorcade protest

A second farmers group is throwing its weight behind next week's rally by the Irish Farmers Association.

Fri, 03 Jan, 2003

Farmers take to the streets in protest at the drop in farm incomes

FARMERS plan to take to the streets next week in a series of public protests to highlight the drop in their incomes from agriculture.

Tue, 31 Dec, 2002

BSE find in young bull ‘likely to be isolated incident’

IRELAND’S 3½ year old BSE bull largely escaped the attention of the international media last week – thanks to a Nobel Prize winning scientist who said all Britons should be tested for variant CJD.

Thu, 05 Dec, 2002

Plans to double levies leave farmers furious

Agriculture Correspondent

Tue, 19 Nov, 2002

Mixed reaction to Book of Estimate figures

There has been a mixed reaction to the publication of the Minister for Finance's Book of Estimates.

Thu, 14 Nov, 2002

Mixed response to enlargement funding plan

AS the European Union outlined to accession States yesterday how it intends to finance expansion to the east, the reaction of the Irish farm lobby to the deal remained divided.

Tue, 29 Oct, 2002

ICSA slams quality beef ‘rip off’ up to 15p/lb

U GRADE cattle would have made up to 109p/lb if a pricing system to reward better quality cattle was introduced after the January 2000 beef factory blockades.

Thu, 24 Oct, 2002

Fine Gael lauds farming bodies for Nice support

A VOTE for the Nice Treaty is a vote for Ireland, according to Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, and not a vote for the Government.

Thu, 26 Sep, 2002

Nice had top billing at national ploughing championships

IT might be a biscuit to some people and a French Riveria resort to others, but for the thousands of people at the national ploughing championships at Ballacolla, Co Laois, yesterday, it was essentially all about Europe.

Wed, 25 Sep, 2002

CAP principles ‘should not be undermined’

THE French and Irish agriculture ministers have agreed that the policy framework established under Agenda 2000 should remain in place until 2006 and that the Common Agriculture Policy should not be subject to fundamental reform at this stage.

Wed, 18 Sep, 2002

Tullamore Cocktail goes down a treat

WHAT do you get when you mix an infectious rural spirit with a heritage of producing quality food and animals, nourish it with good whiskey and add an invigorating range of country lifestyles?

Mon, 12 Aug, 2002

Consumers' input to CAP debate welcomed

A FARM leader has welcomed a pledge by the Consumer Liaison Panel to fully debate the proposed Common Agriculture Policy reform.

Thu, 25 Jul, 2002

Farmers and ministers split over CAP

EUROPE'S agriculture ministers and Ireland's farming organisations are split over the radical reforms of the Common Agriculture Policy.

Tue, 16 Jul, 2002

Livestock farmers split over EU proposal for area-based payments

EU livestock farmers are being offered a similar subsidy system to tillage farmers, along the lines of the changed payments to livestock farmers in Disadvantaged Areas.

Thu, 11 Jul, 2002

Gardai await post mortem results on Offaly brawl victim

A post mortem will be carried out later today on the body of a man who died in Beaumont Hospital in Dublin last night.

Fri, 16 Mar, 2001