South Longford Macra took home the top title at the National Dairy Council Tag Rugby All-Ireland final.

MACRA NA FEIRME’S national president Colm Markey called yesterday for the resignation of Peter Mandelson as EU Trade Commissioner.

THE Leaving Certificate results brought bad news for 174 students who failed the ordinary level agricultural science examination - one of the higher failure rates in the examination.

IRELAND cannot ban GM crops, and the key issue now for the government is to lay down rules for co-existence of conventional and GM crops, said Macra na Feirme national president Thomas Honner, after a meeting with European commission official Gijs Berends, who deals with GM foods in Commissioner David Byrne’s cabinet.