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Alison Healy

Alison Healy

Food and Farming Correspondent

Alison Healy is the Food and Farming Correspondent at The Irish Times. She joined the newspaper in 2000 as a reporter. Previously she worked with The Irish Farmers’ Journal.

A butcher works behind a “no horsemeat” sign in Market Harborough, central England. Photograph: Reuters
Annoyance that ‘the Paddies’ uncovered horse meat scandal, conference told

Further arrests in Netherlands over false labelling

IFA president John Bryan: “Any backtracking will be a watershed moment for [Coveney’s] credibility.” Photograph: David Sleator
Farmers to protest outside EU agriculture ministers’ meeting

IFA opposed to minimum payment, saying it would result in major cuts for productive farmers

Tom Joe McManus, Drumshanbo, collecting fodder brought in from Brighton, England, and distributed to farmers affected by the fodder shortage, at Kiltoghert Co-Op, Co Leitrim on Wednesday. Photograph: Eric Luke
“The country is talking about nothing only Mick Wallace and nonsense like that while there are men in dire straits here”

Connacht Gold has imported more than 160 loads of fodder

Over 220 acres of grass cuttings from the airfield at Dublin Airport is being made available to farmers according to the Dublin Airport Authority.
Farm leaders want national effort to help with fodder shortage

Dublin Airport donating its grass to farmers

Farmer Eoin Brady with the six sheep that were shot dead in Co Wicklow. Photograph: Garry O’Neill
Trained marksman suspected in sheep killings

Sheep ‘were all shot in the heart, lung region with a high-powered rifle’

Fianna Fáil agriculture spokesman Éamon Ó Cuív said the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture found itself in a “farcical situation” in relation to the proposed sale of Coillte’s harvesting rights. Photograph Brenda Fitzsimons
Sale of Coillte tree-harvesting rights would raise ‘a few grains of sand in a desert of debt’, committee told

Decision on proposed sale expected next week

Members of the IFA protesting on Kildare St in October 2012 during their day of action which raised the issue of falling farm incomes. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
Average farm income was €25,483 last year, Teagasc survey finds

Almost 20 per cent of farms have income less than €5,000, although huge variation across sector

George Boland photographed in Dublin while on tour with the Irish Elderly Advice Network as part of The Gathering. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Irish man recounts horrors of six years of servitude

Westmeath man kept captive by Irish Travellers in UK

A group from the Irish Elderly Advice Network photographed at Cassidy’s Hotel Parnell Square after arriving in Dublin for the Gathering. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
A gathering of Irish emigrants ready to see Dublin in a new light

Group will meet President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Enda Kenny during their visit

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A butcher works behind a “no horsemeat” sign in Market Harborough, central England. Photograph: Reuters Annoyance that ‘the Paddies’ uncovered horse meat scandal, conference told
IFA president John Bryan: “Any backtracking will be a watershed moment for [Coveney’s] credibility.” Photograph: David Sleator Farmers to protest outside EU agriculture ministers’ meeting
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