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A new European Scheme will ensure people living and working in rural areas in Co Galway, and across Ireland, will finally be able to get broadband connected to their homes and businesses.

An investment of €96,700 will be made in improving both the access and the environment of Belleek Woods, a meeting of the Ballina Electoral Area committee was told this week.

Farmer Dan Brennan has expressed his frustration at the lack of progression on the problems that have affected his farm over the past 20 years in Castlecomer Co Kilkenny.

Over €1.5 million is to be distributed among Westmeath’s forestry owners under the Forestry Programme, it was announced this week.

The launch of the Department of Agriculture’s new €50 million Agri-Environment Options Scheme signals good news for farmers.

Kilkenny IFA chairman Joan Fitzpatrick said the new Agri-Environment Scheme to replace REPS, which was launched recently by the Minister for Agriculture Brendan Smith, falls short of expectations and some farmers will be very disappointed that their payments will reduce under the new scheme.

In the space of 10 days the Greens have been hit by a double whammy of resignations and plunged into a public bickering match with their coalition colleagues Fianna Fáil.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ISPCA) has welcomed the 23 month jail sentence handed down to a Kilkenny farmer for animal cruelty this week.

The European Petitions Committee has said that it is not good enough that the cause of toxicity on Dan Brennan’s farm has not been found following a Department of Agriculture report into activities on the farm over the past two decades.

Potato growers and other farmers throughout Galway who are facing financial ruin in the wake of the flooding and more recent cold spell are now calling on the Government to urgently provide assistance to save them from going out of business.