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Irish government faces farming criticisms

15/04/2003

The Irish government has been accused of neglecting Ireland’s farming community by Billy Timmins, the Fine Gael agriculture spokesperson.

Timmins says the Government has ignored predictions made by the Irish Agriculture and Food Department Authority (Teagasc), which state that the number of people involved in full-time farming in Ireland will drop 50% to 20,000 within eight years.

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