Category: Business

  • FARMERS WANT TO KNOW MINISTER’S VIEW ON COMPETITION ISSUE

    Following the IFA Rally outside Slaney Meats in Bunclody, Co Wexford yesterday, IFA National Livestock Chairman Henry Burns has acknowledged today’s move by the Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney that he will write to the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) about the ABP investment in Slaney Meats. He said, “Farmers want to know what…

  • Cashel bids to become Ireland’s First ‘Zero Waste’ Community

    Cashel in County Tipperary is bidding to become Ireland’s first ‘zero waste’ community following in the footsteps of over 200 towns and cities worldwide, including San Francisco and Ljubljana, which have embraced the principle. VOICE, an environmental charity specialising in waste and the circular economy, has joined forces with the Southern Regional Waste Management Office…

  • Dublin Shootings will hit Tipperary Tourism

    The escalating gun violence in Dublin with the recent killings which are gang related will have a profound effect on Tourism in Tipperary. On a recent trip to Oslo, I was speaking to a number of locals who said they were travelling to Ireland in the coming weeks, however are now reconsidering their holiday plans…

  • The others only spoke of the hotel being full, I spoke of how I had filled it – Morris

    Sinn Féin’s Tipperary General Election candidate Cllr. Séamie Morris has reminded his constituency rivals of his ability to do rather than just talk about doing. Speaking after an interview for the Seán O’Rourke Show on RTE Radio Friday, he said the venue in which the show was held was one he had filled many times…

  • LIQUID MILK SUSTAINABILITY IN QUESTION AS IFA PREDICTIONS COME TO PASS

    Speaking from this week’s meeting of the National Milk Agency, at which he presented Chairman Denis Murphy and CEO Muiris O Ceidigh with the IFA Liquid Milk Producers’ Petition, IFA National Liquid Milk Committee Chairman Teddy Cashman said many of the predictions made last Autumn by the Committee had by now come to pass. Speaking…

  • MINISTER HAS TO ADDRESS FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES ON PRICE AND WEIGHTS

    IFA National Livestock Committee Chairman Henry Burns said IFA has always supported the producer group concept, but Minister Coveney has to address the fundamental issues on price and weights. He said the way the meat factories are imposing weight limit and age penalties on our best farmers and quality stock is a complete breach of…

  • Noel Coonan Welcomes New Rates Initiative for Tipperary Businesse

    Noel Coonan Welcomes New Rates Initiative for Tipperary Businesse

    Tipperary TD Noel Coonan has welcomed the decision of Tipperary County Council to introduce new rates initiatives for businesses in the northern part of the county. “The Commercial Incentive Scheme 2016/2017 offers a grant payable equivalent to 75% of rates paid by a person or company for year one, 50% for year two and 25%…

  • IFA Election looms as each member has single vote

    The IFA Executive Council has agreed a number of rule changes ahead of the national elections that will take place in April.   The Executive Council has decided to move to One Member One Vote (OMOV), instead of a weighted branch vote, for the election of the next President and Deputy President of the IFA.…

  • IFA REACHES AGREEMENT ON COMPULSORY LAND PURCHASE FOR NATIONAL ROAD DEVELOPMENT

    The Irish Farmers’ Association and Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Michael Ring TD, today (Tuesday) announced the signing of a renewed co-operation agreement between the Department, Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) and the IFA in respect of land compulsorily acquired or to be acquired for the development of the national…

  • Minister Kelly Announces new Fire Station for Cashel under €40 million Fire Services Capital Programme 2016-2020

    Mr Alan Kelly, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government has today, 1stFebruary, 2016, announced details of a new fire station for Cashel, Co. Tipperary as part of an overall €40m programme of construction/refurbishment of 26 fire stations for the five year period 2016 – 2020.  The programme will see 16 new fire…