Coughlan vows to tackle food issues

THE country’s first woman Agriculture and Food Minister Mary Coughlan declared yesterday the challenge of her new position was to be able to deal with change.

Speaking at the national ploughing championships in Grangeford, Tullow, Co Carlow, she said agriculture had changed during recent years and her predecessor Joe Walsh was very much involved in managing that change.

She said she would be looking at issues of food.