MEPs to visit farm where cattle and trees are mysteriously wasting

MEMBERS of the European Parliament are to visit a farm in Kilkenny where cattle are getting mysterious illnesses and trees are dying.

Farmer Dan Brennan said he feared the Irish authorities were attempting to cover up what had been happening on his 67 hectare holding for at least the last 19 years and he feared for the health of his children.

Despite several investigations by the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency he had never been told what was causing the problem, he told the European Parliament’s Petitions Committee in Brussels yesterday.