Agri-Business
UK government sets out alternative to backstop
The UK government has set out an “amended protocol” for the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is supposed...
Brexit
Agri-Business
Johnson: UK ‘will under no circumstances have checks at or near border’
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that the UK will “under no circumstances have checks at or near the...
Agri-Business
Johnson: Leaked papers ‘not talking about’ proposals set to be tabled
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rejected the leaked UK proposals regarding customs posts on both sides of the Northern...
Agri-Business
UK proposes customs ‘sites’ on both sides of NI border
A proposal has been put forward by the UK which would see a number of customs posts established on both...
Beef
Welsh farmers threaten court action to stop ‘tariff-free’ Irish imports
The Farmers Union of Wales (FUW) has said that it is prepared to “go through the courts if necessary” to...
Agri-Business
Environment Secretary champions Welsh food and farming industry
Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers has this week met key members of the thriving Welsh farming, food and drink industries, while...
Agri-Business
Whelan: No-deal tariffs will ‘wipe out total profitability’ from NI dairy
No-deal Brexit tariffs will “wipe out total profitability” from the Northern Irish dairy industry, group CEO of Dale Farm Nick...
Beef
‘Nothing replaces the scale of the UK’ – Coveney
The Irish food and agri-food sector should be slow in moving away from the UK market even in the event...
Rural Life
The Irish border: ‘An inconvenient truth in London?’
The Irish Government will be transparent and truthful on the border issue – that is an inconvenient truth in London...
N.Ireland
How will mobile phone charges between Ireland and the UK after Brexit be affected?
The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment has engaged with industry specifically on the issue of mobile roaming between...
Agri-Business
UK farmers call for review of no-deal tariff policy and NI zero-tariff arrangement
A British farmers’ representative group has written to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, urging him to review the UK’s no-deal...
N.Ireland
‘As far as the people of this area are concerned the DUP is not interested’
Apart from workers here having to apply for certain status [because of Brexit] there is now also the economic viability...
Agri-Business
Meirionnydd farmers tell politicians they 'fear for future'
Farmers from Meirionnydd told local politicians of their fears for the future when they met at the local county show...
N.Ireland
Brexit: ‘We are just going to have to wait and see what happens’
Can a company like ours absorb 9% costs supplying major multi-retailers? The answer to that is no. In addition to...
N.Ireland
Waiting with bated breath for a no-deal Brexit impact on business
A business like mine is very exposed to the implications of a no-deal Brexit; we are talking about everyday products...
N.Ireland
Bridging the great divide with due diligence and a sense of care
McNamee’s Bakery was established in Crossmaglen in 1939 – on the day World War II began the family signed for...
N.Ireland
‘This Brexit will set us back years and years – it’s difficult times’
Arthur O’Neill of O’Neill’s Tractors in Crossmaglen set up the business in 1985 and, while it has weathered a few...
N.Ireland
‘Hatred being fuelled by North’s polarising politics’ – GAA star Justin McNulty
Justin McNulty was just nine years old when a bomb exploded in a field 100m from the kitchen table where...
