Teagasc needs to make a clear public statement on its position over proposals to cull the national suckler herd, the IFA has warned.
EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan came under fire from Irish and European MEPs last week on what they called an "Armageddon" Mercosur deal at the first meeting of the new EU Parliament Agri committee last week.
Dan Coats, the US director of national intelligence, will leave his job next month, President Donald Trump has said, after a turbulent two years in which they were often at odds over Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has said that he believes US President Donald Trump "richly deserves impeachment".
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was yesterday discharged from a Moscow hospital, where he was being treated for an unexplained health problem, and returned to prison under guard, his doctor Anastasia Vasilyeva said.
Dominic Raab, the UK foreign secretary, has ruled out an exchange of seized oil tankers with Iran, insisting there can be "no quid pro quo" to end the stand-off.
New York State yesterday decriminalised recreational marijuana use, meaning possession of small amounts of the drug will be punished with fines rather than jail time, a step short of Governor Andrew Cuomo's goal of legalising pot.
