by admin | Dec 21, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
20 DECEMBER 2018 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has called on the Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and the Central Bank to put mechanisms in place that would make mediation mandatory where a family has fallen into debt arrears. “All sides must be...
by admin | Dec 17, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
17 DECEMBER 2018 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has called on financial institutions and vulture funds to cease the draconian act of forced eviction. “The unfortunate scenes at a Roscommon farmyard over recent days were reminiscent of something from...
by admin | Dec 11, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
11 DECEMBER 2018 ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock has called on the Institute for Professional Auctioneers and Valuers (IPAV) to withdraw their services with regard to selling distressed property for financial institutions and vulture funds until all...
by admin | Dec 5, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
04 DECEMBER 2018 ICSA president Patrick Kent today said that the figures from the Teagasc Annual Review and Outlook are a stark reminder of just how bad things are on cattle and sheep farms. “The shocking statistics are that net margin on suckler farms has gone...
by admin | Nov 29, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
28 NOVEMBER 2018 ICSA sheep chairman John Brooks has welcomed the advance payment of €15.1 million made to 18,600 sheep farmers under year two of the Sheep Welfare Scheme. Commenting, Mr Brooks said, “The advance payment rate has been set at 85% again this year which...
by admin | Nov 26, 2018 | Latest News, Press Releases
26 NOVEMBER 2018 ICSA today (26 Nov) mounted a protest at the Dublin offices of online property trading platform BidX1 in opposition to the forced sale of lands. Speaking at the protest ICSA rural development chairman Seamus Sherlock said, “The farming community must...