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Despite fodder being transported into Ireland from Britain and France, the fodder transport scheme must be extended for as long as it is required as the crisis continues to hit farmers hard.

Farmers with minor AEOS penalties have been “left in limbo” for weeks and are being “continuously fobbed off” with excuses as to why they are not receiving their money.

Community Garda resources across County Galway are at risk of further cuts after Justice Minister Alan Shatter backed away from a promise to re-open Garda recruitment this year.

Despite a ruling that the Galway City Outer Bypass will damage an area of special conservation, proof that its construction is overwhelmingly in the public interest may see the controversial motorway being built.

More than 1,000 farmers in Galway, who applied to the Disadvantaged Areas Scheme, have not received any payment, a situation a local TD has called “disgraceful”.

If your surname begins with A, B, or C, you are more likely to get elected than anyone else, so new methods which eliminate this subliminal bias are called for.

Newly published proposals on tackling the mortgage crisis will put homeowners “back in the driving seat” instead of giving “all the power to the banks”.

It is “deeply unfair” to expect homeowners, who “cannot afford their home as it is”, and are in mortgage arrears, to have to pay “hundreds of euro in extra tax on that home”.

The Taoiseach must “urgently raise” the latest developments in the horsemeat controversy at EU level, according to Fianna Fáil agriculture spokesperson Éamon Ó Cuív.

Only an independent investigation into the horse meat controversy will “reassure customers” and “restore confidence” in Irish meat processing nationally and internationally.