Agriculture
Lucinda Creighton: Ireland’s farming lobby has given up the ghost when its members need it most
A wave of farm protests has swept across Europe over recent months but the once-vocal Irish farming lobby seems to have gone missing, at least for now
Across Europe, a wave of farmer resistance to bureaucracy, red tape and the mounting challenges of the green transition economic burden has stopped the political class in its tracks.
While the frustration of farmers and rural dwellers has been apparent for many years, the palpable anger and the visceral response of European farmers in the past year especially, has taken some by surprise.
Protests are to be expected from the French, who rarely shy away ...
