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There must be no reduction in funding for the Common Agriculture Policy and The Taoiseach must use his position as incoming EU president to ensure funding is not cut.

There is no need to hit hard-pressed homeowners with a property tax in the upcoming Budget or to slash front line services further - there is a fairer way.

The ash dieback disease, which has wiped out ash tree populations across Europe, has now spread to Ireland and measures must be taken against it.

Large scale job losses and cutbacks of 1,500 redundancies at An Post and the 2,000 job cuts at eircom amount to “yet another attack on rural Ireland”.

Bus and ferry services to the Aran Islands are set to continue for another five years following the announcement of a new contract, but there is concern air flights to the island are under threat.

If the Minister for Agriculture is worried that funds for farming schemes and grants will decline over the next three years he must say so publicly instead of refusing to answer questions on the issue.

A public meeting focusing on the human rights’ campaign to free Marian Price, takes place this evening in Richardson’s, Eyre Square, at 8pm.

Supermarkets rejecting “ugly” fruit as “unmarketable” must be investigated, especially when farmers are struggling to harvest their crops following the poor summer weather.

Families across Galway are already “to the pin of their collar” and cannot afford to pay “hundreds of euro in extra taxes from next year”.

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney has remained “idle and done nothing to avert the disaster that will affect farmers in Ireland this year” after what has been an “unusually wet summer”.