by admin | Nov 23, 2016 | ICSA in the Media
FarmIreland – 9 NOVEMBER 2016 1Cattle pictured feeding in the dawn frost in Co Carlow recently. Photo Roger Jones Farmers with expensive merchant credit and unsustainable overdrafts must be given the same access as new loan applicants to the €150m low interest...
by admin | Nov 22, 2016 | ICSA in the Media
FarmIreland.com – 7 NOVEMBER 2016 1 Celebrating the opening to the public of the Kilmacthomas to Dungarvan section of the Waterford Greenway is Jacqui de Paor with her daughter Grainne and son Seán. Local landowners will not tolerate any effort to ‘railroad’...
by admin | Nov 22, 2016 | General News, ICSA in the Media
AGRILAND – 6 NOVEMBER 2016 ICSA Rural Development Chairman Seamus Sherlock has said that ICSA and local landowners will not tolerate any effort to railroad through the Athlone to Galway section of the proposed Dublin-Galway Greenway. Speaking following comments...
by admin | Nov 22, 2016 | General News, ICSA in the Media
SOUTHERN STAR – 6 NOVEMBER 2016 SIR – Following revelations that Ulster Bank has sold a share of its loan book to vulture funds, I am again calling – on behalf of the Irish Cattle & Sheep Farmers’ Association – on the banking sector in Ireland to take...
by admin | Nov 22, 2016 | General News, ICSA in the Media
AGRILAND – 3 NOVEMBER 2016 Irish farmers cannot continue to carry the cost of exchange rate fluctuations resulting from Brexit uncertainty, according to the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association’s General Secretary Eddie Punch. Speaking at the All-Island...
by admin | Nov 22, 2016 | ICSA in the Media
AGRILAND – 1 NOVEMBER 2016 Winter finishers have lost confidence in the beef trade and are slow to purchase store cattle, according to the ICSA’s Edmond Phelan. Store cattle prices in marts have been under pressure, he said,...