'Imagine that it took a bunch of nuns sitting out on that road to get this school built?" whispered former TD and MEP Gay Mitchell to me during a function at my better half's old school last week.
If factory prices fail to get above €4/kg in early 2020 then it's time to "close down the Irish beef sector altogether", ICSA beef chairman, Edmund Graham, has warned.
Farmers protesting in Dublin tell Claire Fox why they have taken to the streets.
Prince Andrew's accuser Virginia Giuffre has called for the support of the British people and called the denials "bulls**t" .
The price rally that began in early November with the entry into the market of those who had waited to see how or if Brexit affected the market continued last week.
The ICSA claims that fresh analysis it conducted reveals the scale of the margins being made by processors and retailers on heifers destined for the supermarket shelf - the mark-up for an animal's meat is well over 100pc on what the farmer receives at the farm gate.
This time last week there was great scepticism among many in the farming community as to whether the farmer protest that had just kicked off in Dublin was a good idea.
