Ciaran Moran
Digital Farming Editor at Irish Independent
Deputy Farming Editor at the Irish Independent and a beef and sheep farmer in Roscommon
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4 days ago |
independent.ie | Ciaran Moran |Tim Healy
Estate received €77,840.94 in EU payments in 2024, down from almost the €90,000 it received in 2023The Barne Estate, the 751ac Tipperary farm at the centre of a high-profile legal dispute between its owners and the bloodstock giant John Magnier, saw its farm subsidies slide significantly last year. The Estate received €77,840.94 in EU payments in 2024, according to the most recent data published on the Department of Agriculture’s CAP Beneficiaries website.
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1 week ago |
independent.ie | Ciaran Moran
Ag committee comes out swinging – but can the fire last the Dáil term? "Tempers, timekeeping and turf wars: TDs and Senators clash over schemes, soil and spending in fiery return to the Agriculture Committee."“Every farmer out there is terrified of a TB test. It’s all gone wrong - it’s like a runaway train.”That was Independent TD Willie Aird, barely pausing for breath as he barrelled past his allotted time during this week’s opening public meeting of the Oireachtas Agriculture Committee.
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1 week ago |
independent.ie | Ciaran Moran
Speaking at a meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels, he said that while the proposals address some concerns raised by Ireland and member states, their impact on Irish family farms may be marginal. He welcomed some changes, particularly to the performance clearance and amendment processes used by governments, which he said “should go some way to ease the administrative burden for member states in relation to conditionality”.
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2 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Ciaran Moran
Subsidies are needed to safeguard rural vets – Veterinary Council'The VCI report warns that the sustainability of rural veterinary services is under pressure due to a combination of demographic shifts, workload demands and an increasing urban-rural divide in veterinary practice'.
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2 weeks ago |
independent.ie | Ciaran Moran
The EPA has detailed that while some early signs of improvement were recorded in 2024, serious water quality challenges persist in Ireland – including high nitrate levels in key agricultural areas – as it delivered its first presentation to the EU Nitrates Committee on the future of the nitrates derogation.
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Is withdrawing subsidies from older farmers a fair or realistic solution? With one third of farm households in receipt of pension income, would it force much-needed land transfers, or simply leave a generation of rural pensioners financially stranded? https://t.co/4N37thrQ3d
Seventh-generation farmer Gráinne Horan explains how she is expanding her herd, and why traditional breeds – Angus and Hereford – work for their land and system, and why her heart is in suckler farming https://t.co/W97Q9diVxf
France organised a meeting of 10 EU countries on Thursday to discuss a trade deal with Latin America's Mercosur bloc, pushing for the inclusion of an "emergency brake" on farming imports. https://t.co/qRoUdzhoQz
