The services available from the Veterinary Laboratory Service of the Department of Agriculture were promoted at the Sheep 2012 event in Co Galway.

IT’S a far cry from the steamy tropical surroundings of South Florida or the gritty mean streets of New York but a state-of-the art forensic lab — CSI Kildare, if you will — is to be developed in Celbridge.

THE Department of Agriculture has started a process of local office closures and job cuts which will save it €30 million per year.

THE Department of Agriculture is closing 42 local offices and relocating to 16 “enhanced” regional centres with a reduction of 400 staff.

GREENHOUSE gas emissions from agriculture have fallen in recent years, a seminar hosted by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (DAFF) was told in Backweston, Co Kildare, yesterday.

A PROBE was under way last night into the source of a contaminant found in animal feed.

A new Government agency will fast-track the building of up to 10,000 affordable homes in the greater Dublin area, it emerged today.

THERE is no laboratory in Ireland to test food for potentially lethal dioxins despite State plans to build at least seven incinerators.