CHEAP milk from Northern Ireland is creating difficulties, the annual general meeting of Arrabawn Co-op was told in Portumna, Co Galway, yesterday.

UPWARDS of 50 gardaí carried out dawn raids yesterday on the homes of a gang whose members are suspected of being involved in scores of robberies in Cork, Limerick and Galway.

THE Government’s plan for decentralisation is unworkable and should be abandoned, the Irish Rural Link annual conference was told in Portumna, Co Galway, yesterday.

RETAIL sales of organic products in Ireland have reached an estimated 38 million this year, the national organics conference was told in Portumna, Co Galway, yesterday.