A BVD implementation group has been created with members drawn from Veterinary Ireland, IFA, ICMSA, ICOS, pedigree cattle breed societies, the Department of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries, and ICBF.

CELLCHECK, the Animal Health Ireland-led national initiative on mastitis, will roll out autumn regional training sessions for service providers, (milking machine technicians, veterinary practitioners, advisors and consultants), and a pilot scheme involving several discussion groups will commence in June 2011.

ONLY 48% of heifer calves calved as heifers into the dairy herd at two years of age in recent years, and this highlights the problems of calf mortality and poor calf health on Irish farms, according to the Animal Health Ireland (AHI) organisation.

A FORMER council engineer accused of deceiving a superior officer over an €18,920 contract was acquitted yesterday when a judge directed a jury to return a “not guilty” verdict.

A LABOUR member of Dungarvan Town Council, who is set to become mayor next month, has claimed that when darkness falls all hell breaks loose on some of the housing estates.

ILLNESS has forced Labour’s Fiachra Ó Ceilleachair to resign as mayor of Dungarvan two months before his year-long term was due to end.

A FORMER convent, which has stood derelict in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, for years and has become a blackspot for anti-social behaviour, is to be converted into a community building.

DUNGARVAN Town Council has prepared a draft anti-social behaviour policy document that will go on display for submissions from members of the public.

PHASE TWO of Dungarvan’s €300 million shopping complex development is to begin in 2005.