IFA circles vultures

IFA president Joe Healy is ready to take on the vulture funds selling farmland around the country, writes Michael Brennan

Joe Healy, president, IFA: ‘Right is right at the end of the day’ Picture: Hany Marzouk

It is the farmers versus the vultures: the president of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA), Joe Healy, has warned that his members will be personally visiting buyers, solicitors and auctioneers to get them to “back away” from the sale of farmland by vulture funds.

The IFA has thrown down the gauntlet to the funds by effectively calling for a boycott of all forced sales of farmland. In an interview with The Sunday Business ...