Search Results for 'Brendan Smith'

Galway East Tourism scooped the top prize at the Galway County Heritage Awards, held in Claregalway last week.

Last week the Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith decided to extend the last date for slurry spreading to the end of this month, "but the date extension is totally inadequate."

Mayo farmers are to receive advance payment of the 2008 Single Payment following a request at European level by the Minister for Agriculture, Mr Brendan Smith.

The €80 Suckler Cow Welfare Scheme has been cut in half for next year.

Government Spokesperson on Agriculture in Seanad Éireann and Fianna Fáil Senator John Carty has welcomed the news that the EU Commissioner for Public Health has proposed an increase to 48 months in the minimum age for BSE testing of animals slaughtered for human consumption as well as emergency slaughtered and fallen animals.

Glanbia the Kilkenny-based milk processing group paid milk suppliers the lowest price for milk for the month of September.

The Government, through Enterprise Ireland, expects to provide some €30 million over the next five years to progressive companies in the prepared consumer food sector through its R&D and growth funds, An Tánaiste Mary Coughlan announced this week.

Many Galway farmers who are now joining the REPS 4 scheme may not receive any payment until late 2009, and even then will be paid in two instalments, according to Deputy Paul Connaughton.

There are three vital areas that the Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith must deliver on, in the CAP Health Check according to the IFA president Padraig Walshe.

The Den Crèche in Barna was one of 12 crèche providers in the country to receive the prestigious All Ireland Centre of Excellence award at a recent function in Dublin.