Gordon Elliott’s Roi Du Mee toyed with the opposition on his way to landing the featured John Meagher Memorial Chase at Thurles yesterday.

Davy Russell will remember yesterday’s meeting at Tramore, but for all of the wrong reasons.

Farmers could lose up to 50% of their income if the CAP goes ahead as proposed, IFA members told EU Commissioner Dacian Ciolos on his visit to the RDS last week.

THERE is an old saying, “If it’s not broken, don’t try to fix it.”

THE family of an in-patient at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick has called for an inquiry into how he was knocked down and killed just a few hundred metres from the facility’s entrance on Monday night.

THE number of people killed on Irish roads in 2011 has risen to 182 following a number of fatal accidents over the holiday period.

Gardaí have named the victims of two seperate road traffic accidents.

JIMMY MANGAN’S daughter, Jane, was 18-years-of age yesterday and certainly celebrated the occasion with a real sense of style when landing a double at Limerick.

“IS there a profit? You decide”, is the presentation by John Horgan and James Fleming of Teagasc at next Wednesday’s beef production and marketing event in Corrin Mart, Fermoy, starting at 7pm.

Two people have been taken to Wexford General Hospital with minor injuries following a protest by farmers at the Department of Agriculture in Johnstown Castle.

ONE of the largest-scale cattle farmers in the country is to lose 20% of the land which he farms when a rental lease is up at the start of next year.

FARMERS need to retain their full national envelope of supports in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) negotiations, IFA president John Bryan told European Union agriculture representatives in Tullamore, Co Offaly.

PAUL Carberry doubled-up on Cottage Oak and Like The Da on a good day for favourite-backers at Down Royal yesterday.

RUBY WALSH, out of luck on The Midnight Club in the National at Aintree on Saturday, journeyed to Tramore yesterday for just one ride, Uncle Junior in the Waterford and Tramore Disrectors’ Chase, and it duly obliged.

THERE will be up to €1m available for distribution from the Single Payment 2011 reserve, according to IFA.

FOR BILL, who went off at 4-11, failed to complete a four-timer when proving no match for Aura About You in the Grade 3 ITBA Fillies Scheme Dawn Run Mares’ Novice Chase at Limerick yesterday.

Trainer Paul Nolan enjoyed a near 141-1 treble at Limerick with Golden Sunbird, Aura About You and Politeo striking gold.

SOME 30 members of the Irish Farmers’ Association are staging a sit-in protest at the European Commission’s offices in Dublin.

HIDDEN CYCLONE continued his rise up the ranks with a gusty display to land the Grade 2 Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle at Thurles yesterday.

DAIRY farmers are going “off the grid” to slaughter cattle due to dissatisfaction at the prices being delivered by meat factories using the QPS beef grid, says the ICMSA.

WINTER beef finishers must dig in on cattle prices and reject the scare-mongering and concerted efforts of factories and agents to undermine beef market confidence and cattle prices, cautions the Irish Farmers Association.

FARM leaders representing the beef and livestock sector in Ireland, Spain, France and Italy have warned that producers can’t continue with cattle prices below the cost of production.

Jockeys Emmet Mullins and Michael Doran will be on the sidelines for at least a month following falls at yesterday’s meeting in Listowel.

MEAT factories and retailers are going to have to offer contracts at economically viable prices to secure cattle supplies next winter, the Irish Farmers Association has warned.

TRAINER David Marnane is enjoying his best ever season and registered his 24th win of the campaign in Ireland when Maal came from last to first to win the Derrinstown Stud Apprentice Claiming Race in Clonmel last evening.

BEEF factories were urged yesterday to come forward with contract arrangements at economically viable prices for winter finishers to fatten cattle next winter and spring.

A ROW broke out yesterday between the Irish Farmers Association and the Department of Defence over meat supplies to the Defence Forces.

THE credibility of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will be thrown into question by the proposed Mercosur trade deal, Fine Gael has warned.

BRIAN O’Connell bounced back from the controversial defeat of Dunguib at Cheltenham to register a double on Barney King and Caim Hill at Down Royal yesterday.

TIGHTER cattle supplies across Britain and in Ireland will drive on beef prices in 2010, it was claimed yesterday.

ANY obstacles being put in front of the live cattle trade to Britain must be removed and the market must be allowed to flow.

CATTLE feeders in Britain want Irish weanlings and store cattle, said IFA national livestock chairman Michael Doran, after he met representatives of the National Farmers Union, cattle finishers and key supermarket groups in Britain.

MEAT factories have been accused by farmers of trying to damage the live export trade, which has grown dramatically since the start of the year.

THE country’s €1.6 billion beef export trade and its production base are being damaged as a result of cattle prices being reduced by processors, the Irish Farmers Association president Padraig Walshe claimed yesterday.

THE country’s €150 million live export trade could be lost due to new animal transport laws proposed by the European Commission, it was claimed yesterday.

MEAT factories were accused by the Irish Farmers Association yesterday of financially crippling winter finishers through unjustified cattle price cuts.

LIVESTOCK farmers and meat processors clashed yesterday over cattle prices.

CATTLE farmers need an immediate price increase to stop haemorrhaging losses, the Irish Farmers Association has declared.

ATTEMPTS by the meat factories to pull back cattle prices would bankrupt winter finishers and put a halt to farmers feeding cattle for the spring, it was claimed yesterday.

THE Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has claimed that a new European Union report is a damning indictment of Brazilian beef auditing and traceability.

THE price prospects for the beef and livestock sector this autumn are positive, according to Irish Farmers Association president, Padraig Walshe.

Farmers are protesting at Government Buildings in Dublin today to voice their opposition to a proposed deal on beef at the World Trade Organisation talks.

PROSPECTS for a deal at the world trade talks suffered a setback yesterday when France warned that the current proposals were not acceptable.