Details of Irish EU grants to be revealed

ALL Irish recipients who benefit from EU farm subsidies will be publicly named, for the first time, next year.

Farmers and food companies in Ireland receive €1.7 billion yearly — the largest amount for any member state per head of population. The European Union distributes more than €48.5bn a year in agricultural aids.

But Ireland, and 10 other countries, had not made the full list of recipients public.