7.45am: Gardaí just arrived on the scene. Three lorries blocked by @IFAmedia at Lidl distribution centre in Charleville and a number of others put off and continued driving. Workers in cars being allowed in. @farmersjournal pic.twitter.com/AsizRpWILy
— Hannah QuinnMulligan (@hqmulligan) December 6, 2019
Farmers hold protest outside Lidl distribution centre in Ballyhea, Co Cork
This morning.
Outside a Lidl distribution centre in Charleville Ballyhea, Co Cork.
Farmers and members of the Irish Farmers’ Association began a 12-hour protest over beef prices at 7am.
This is the second such protest this week, following a similar protest at an Aldi distribution centre in Naas, Co Kildare, yesterday.
Further protest over beef prices as Lidl centre in Co Cork blockaded (RTE)
Beef Plan calls IFA protest ‘regrettable’ (Hannah Quinn Mulligan, Farmers Journal)
Pics: Harold Kingston and Hannah Quinn Mulligan
The IFA are only targeting the German multiples because the IFA are not in their pockets.
Could you expand on that point please?
The IFA isn’t blockading the slaughterhouses because it is in the pocket of the beef barons.
Other farmer protests, independent of the IFA, have targeted the slaughterhouses and the Department of Agriculture.
The IFA is now trying to save face by mounting blockades of the German multiples who, in terms of connections with the establishment, are the softest of targets for the IFA.
The IFA doesn’t really represent farmers, it is just a lobbying tool for the big producers in the meat and dairy industry. Farmers are beginning to realise this.
Thank you.
I think you’re spot on here. The situation is going to get worse without mediation.