Farmers plan protests outside meat factories

FARMERS are going ahead with overnight cattle price protests from tomorrow evening outside the six meat factories owned by the country’s largest processing group, AIBP.

The planned action outside the Goodman group plants in Nenagh, Cahir, Bandon, Waterford, Rathkeale and Clones has been sharply criticised by AIBP, which has totally rejected IFA suggestions that it does not pay a fair price for cattle.

And the Irish Meat Association (IMA), which represents processing companies, described the threatened protests as misguided.