A junior agriculture minister has heavily criticised unacceptable practices in the meat industry and said all workers in food plants need the "full protection of the State".
Two years after it was initially threatened with closure, the future of the Fullwood Packo manufacturing facility in Kanturk is once again facing the stark possibly of being wound down for good.
Although the overall kill fell to 31,745 during the week of the 3rd to the 9th of August because of the bank holiday the overall trend in relation to supply appears to be of increasing numbers.
Department of Agriculture vets investigating a cluster of Bovine TB cases between Baile Mhic Íre and Cúl a'Bhuacaigh have discounted "for the present" any link to the ongoing and nearby building works on the N22 bypass of Macroom and Baile Mhúirne.
It was a simple Freedom of Information request on a matter than didn't send the pulse racing. But it says a lot about the reality of how we're governed.
Vegans should stop drinking soya milk in order to save the rainforest, the UK Sustainable Food Trust has said.
A yellow rain warning is in place for most of the country until tomorrow morning with heavy and thundery rain and local flooding set to batter the country.
