NEWS & EVENTS

The Chairperson of ICMSA’s Livestock Committee, Michael O’Connell, has ridiculed what he said were the latest “obviously transparent” attempts by factories to control both live and slaughter trade this week.  Mr. O’Connell said that this “scaremongering and bluffing warranted nothing but an ‘all guns blazing’ rebuff by farmers” and he…

 Describing the latest milk price reductions as “horrendous”, the Chairperson of ICMSA Dairy Committee, Noel Murphy, has said that attributing the precipitous fall in milk price to a ‘simple’ oversupply relative to demand was to ignore what he said was actually a much more fundamental problem with the existing dairy…

ICMSA has said that farmers who have suffered the already hugely stressful event of a TB breakdown in their herd are having their troubles compounded by unacceptable delays in the payment of compensation. Eamon Carroll, Deputy President of ICMSA, said that the matter “could and should” be addressed as a…

The Chairperson of ICMSA’s Farm Business Committee, Pat O’Brien, has expressed disappointment that the grant aid for replacement roofs under TAMS has still not been made available to farmers.    Mr. O’Brien said that ICMSA had looked for the introduction of the grant aid earlier this year and before the…

Speaking following a meeting with the EU Environment Commissioner Roswall, ICMSA President, Denis Drennan, said that it was vital that the Commissioner saw ‘firsthand’ the lengths and efforts Irish farmers were already engaged upon in the context of water quality.    “We clearly outlined to the Commissioner the sustainable system…

Following the recent series of September price cut announcements by Co-ops and processors right across the country, the Chairperson of ICMSA’s Dairy Committee, Noel Murphy, has questioned the disparity between prices now applicable across the country and said the differences now evident are alarming. “We are not naive and don’t…

Speaking following a meeting with Mr. Christopher O’Sullivan, Minister for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, on the concerns being expressed by the owners of designated land, ICMSA Deputy President, Eamon Carroll, said he has asked the Minister to ensure that the full resources of the state be made available to those…

Speaking following a meeting with Mr. Gijs Schilthuis, the EU Commission’s Director of Sustainability at DG Agriculture, in the Dublin office of the EU Commission today (October 14), the President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan said that ICMSA had stressed a number of key points in relation to the next CAP…

Commenting on the Budget 2026 announcements and expressing his disappointment, the President of ICMSA, Denis Drennan, said that the unanimous position of all involved in the farm and agri sector was that the Government had to begin addressing the looming crisis around succession and generational renewal on the family farms…