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Sat 09 Sep 2009Farmers urged to put cuts anger aside
IRELAND FOR EUROPE:AN APPEAL to Irish farmers to set aside, for the moment, their annoyance at the Government’s withdrawal of funding for Reps and vote Yes for the Lisbon Treaty was made yesterday by Pat Cox, the former president of the European Parliament.
Mr Cox who is Ireland for Europe campaign director, made his appeal at the Agricultural Science Association annual conference in Dublin and said a Yes vote was the best hope for overcoming the economic crisis which has hit Irish farming families.
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