DONNING a weathered flat cap and smearing his rosy red cheeks in coleslaw warpaint, Tom Halley of Hally’s Culchie Solutions was preparing for the biggest day in his career, dispersing Irish beef farmers. Tom had just secured the government contract to be the official ‘Culchie Whisperer’ for Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed and… Read more »
NOT WANTING to misrepresent a complex situation regarding an industry he has little to no knowledge of, one lad in work has confirmed he’s got this whole beef dispute situation nailed down after drifting in and out of listening to the radio on the way into the office this morning. Thomas, a co-worker of middling… Read more »
IN RESPONSE to the EU/Mercosur trade deal which will see tariff free beef being imported from South America, the government has publicly stated it would do everything in its power to help Irish beef farmers while simultaneously putting the industry on eBay in a bid to get someone to take them off their hands. “You… Read more »
“YEP, that’s himself there in the back now,” said Waterford farmer Arthur McLennon, pointing towards the man in his mid-thirties tied up towards the back of one of McLennan’s sheds. “Caught him hoking below in the byre there in… Christ now, what would I say it is… August of twenty…. twenty thirteen, so it was. Aye, 2013,… Read more »
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