by Kevin | Feb 26, 2015 | Press Releases
26th February 2015 Ger Grehan, based in Taughmaconnell in the south of the county, was elected ICSA Roscommon chairman at Wednesday night’s annual general meeting in the Abbey Hotel. Married with four children, Mr. Grehan is a suckler and cattle farmer and takes...
by Kevin | Feb 25, 2015 | General News
25th February 2015 Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, today announced further details regarding the implementation of the Scottish Derogation Provision of the Basic Payment Regulation. The Minister said: ‘For a variety of reasons, a...
by Kevin | Feb 23, 2015 | Press Releases
23rd February 2015 ICSA rural development chairman Billy Gray has said that proposed cuts to Bus Eireann routes represent a further attack on rural Ireland. “These cuts will, yet again, disproportionately affect rural dwellers in many parts of Ireland, and on...
by Kevin | Feb 23, 2015 | General News
The Health and Safety Authority has today (Monday 23 February) launched a free short online course entitled ‘Farm Safely with Slurry’ aimed at farmers on its e-learning portal http://hsalearning.ie. The short course provides farmers with an opportunity to...
by Kevin | Feb 20, 2015 | Press Releases
20th February 2015 ICSA president Patrick Kent has expressed concern that the process of making more and more land ineligible for EU supports is continuing unabated by the Department of Agriculture. “We have already seen thousands of farmers subjected to...