THE Agricultural Science Association (ASA) has called for an immediate updating of the agricultural science syllabus for Leaving Certificate students.

METHODS must be found to safeguard the employment of 100 agricultural graduates involved in the Teagasc Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS) planning service, the Agricultural Science Association (ASA) declared yesterday.

THE suspension of the installation aid and early retirement schemes will curtail the development of a commercial farming sector with the necessary scale to generate viable incomes, according to the Agricultural Science Association.

ONE of the leading figures in the Irish meat industry, Dan Browne, has been honoured by the Agricultural Science Association.

THE first woman to be elected president of the Agricultural Science Association (ASA) in its 66-year history is Elaine Farrell, a native of Castletownroche.

AN ORDER for compensation to be paid to a woman injured while she was sitting in the back of a van has been referred to the Supreme Court.

A SENIOR Teagasc executive, Gerry Scully, has been elected president of the Agricultural Science Association (ASA). He takes over from Dr Dermot Ruane of UCD, whose term of office expired in mid-September.

THE State’s refusal to pay out compensation to the family of a Dublin teenager killed while travelling on the floor of a car driven by an uninsured motorist is to be examined by Europe’s highest court.

PEOPLE injured while travelling in vans or other vehicles not intended for passengers must be compensated, the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice decided yesterday.