There will be little comfort for farmers in the Finance Minister's closing remarks yesterday. "If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere," Paschal Donohoe said, quoting Seamus Heaney.
Without doubt, farming and the wider agri-food sector escaped the worst of Covid-19 this year, a factor the Department of Finance took into account when drawing up the Budget.
The Government is gambling on a massive Budget spending spree to save the country from the twin threats of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.
The Government is gambling on a massive Budget spending spree to save the country from the twin threats of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.
Knowledge is slender and hard-won compared with ignorance, which is vast and dangerous, observes the writer Rachel Cusk in her essay Coventry, from the collection by the same name.
Knowledge is slender and hard-won compared with ignorance, which is vast and dangerous, observes the writer Rachel Cusk in her essay Coventry, from the collection by the same name.
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said it had temporarily paused its Covid-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials due to an unexplained illness in a study participant, delaying one of the highest-profile efforts to contain the global pandemic.
