IRISH beef is back on French supermarket shelves for the first time after an absence of eight years, the Minister for Agriculture and Food Mary Coughlan announced when she visited the Bord Bia pavilion at SIAL, the global food fair in Paris yesterday.

KEY buyers across Europe have been targeted by Bord Bia to visit the Irish pavilion at SIAL, the prestigious global food fair being held in Paris this week.

Agriculture Correspondent