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Dep Michael Kitt has welcomed this week’s announcement that the Moroccan market has been reopened to Irish beef and cattle, saying the move is “good news” for cattle farmers after a 15-year hiatus in trade with the north African country.

Mullingar’s Cllr Ken Glynn is encouraging local food businesses to apply for funding under the Innovation Voucher scheme announced recently for small companies in the food sector.

The wonderful space of Kilkenny’s Parade will be used to build a tented village as part of this year’s Savour Kilkenny food festival which takes place on the October bank holiday weekend.

The importance of research and innovation to the recovery of the Irish economy was underlined by new EU Commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn last Friday when she spoke to an audience at NUI Galway in her first public address in Ireland since assuming the post.

At a time when the role of food production had re-emerged as vital to national and EU objectives it was incongruous to see the Irish Exporters Association attempting to diminish the economic value of Irish agriculture in the context of WTO negotiations.

Liam Aylward MEP has received the highest honour that the French Government can bestow upon a non-French citizen.

Liam Aylward MEP has received the highest honour that the French Government can bestow upon a non-French citizen.

The European Union is moving centre stage in helping Ireland pull out of economic recession according to Kilkenny MEP Liam Aylward.

Fianna Fáil MEP for Ireland East, Liam Aylward has pledged that if he gets re-elected to Europe, he will continue to fight for Leinster farmers.

Agri Aware is encouraging Kilkenny’s agri-food sector to stand up and be counted among Irish consumers and influential policy makers, in a major survey designed to assess just how much agri-food is worth to the economy.