Tommy Barker is suitably impressed by a manicured manor by the sea.

THE impact of the Nitrates Directive on the farming community and the wider agri-industry infrastructure of Cork has been drastically underestimated by our politicians and the wider community.

FOLLOWING the Supreme Court’s decision of March 9 to lift the injunction compelling the country’s biggest ferry company to carry live exports, a most critical threat is now posed to the Irish livestock industry.