Over 200 people attended a 24 hour Beef Price Protest at Kepak in Watergrasshill this week, in protest to the growing disparity over Irish and UK beef prices.

The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) organised protests outside every meat factory in the country on Monday and Tuesday, with Cork witnessing further protests in Bandon and Charleville.

Farmer anger with meat factories has boiled over with the substantial €350 per head cattle price gap that has now opened with their main export market in the UK. The protests were called by IFA President, Eddie Downey who said that Irish prices are below the EU average, and that nobody that explain to farmers ‘why the price in the UK, which takes over half our exports, are not reflected in higher prices to Irish farmers’.

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