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
