Maybe you should Vinny, and everyone one else who have a similar problem. That’s the point of protesting.

It is the whole Irish country that is getting screw except for the banks and T.D,s

Right or wrong, at least they go to the streets and protest and take a stand, you will never see so many people on the streets for children’s education, bank bail outs or health cuts , people should learn from them…

October 1- a dozen placard-holders occupy Grafton Street’s AIB branch to protest the €1 billion payout to unsecured bondholders
October 9- Almost 20,000 farmers get their shiz sufficiently together to organise a protest in cuts to their budget.

These farmers are dead right to protest. they have as much rite as any of us. we should take a leaf out of there book. what’s wrong with trying to protect there industry. not sure I agree they had a good year for a few reasons like the wettest summer on record,grain and fertilizer prices have skyrocketed along with the price of fuel ,crop yields have been very poor. this is a competitive industry which requires a lot of hard work 7 days a week 365 days a year. hats off to them.

Ireland is taking over the presidency of the EU at a critical stage in the negotiations of the new CAP, it’s vital that our civil servants and politicians deliver a good deal for Ireland when we hold office for the first 6 months of 2013

I farm part time folks. The cost of commodities is a joke milk is 28 c per litre paid to the farmer this year. Supermarkets have made paupers out of farmers with below cost selling.
Grants are in operation as the eu has acknowledged that prices are being kept low don’t be fooled farming is not booming it’s the same as it has always been, Unpredictable!

More people should definatley be on.the streets protesting. Enda was justifying a mortgage rate increase for AIB when people are strugling!its clearly obvious whos side they are on!

Anybody i knew from college with a farming background got the full grant and were never in a bad way financialy.All drove the best of cars and didnt have a care in the world. Yes granted of course there are poor farmers out there and they should be protected but those farmers who make a decent living from it shouldnt be recieving subsidies to bank roll their lifestyles!Oh and Tesco buy alot of Irish products.They are one of the largest importers of them.

I live in the country and I have never seen a poor farmer. They had a great year last year and they will tell you that themselves. They are the only industry not affected by the recession. They get every grant going for things like step aside where they get paid for leaving the land they have unworked. Farmers children when I was going to school always applied for free books, got free 3rd level and anything else they could get from the government.
Times are hard now lads for everyone, so stop marching through the streets affecting the few people we have working in the Capital.

Farmers have more money then everyone. It’s the fishermen who got screwed big time

What happened to that protest someone was organising last Saturday to complain about something?

Union cuts of 30 percent,who cares about them.Our trawler men have had their quota cut by SEVENTY percent,this month.Now that is a disgrace,as they work 24hrs a day.And they were told to “be glad to have it”by the person giving their quotas,when they questioned this decision.(fact)

Denise and Barry …yer so right…..farmers have always been greedy and the Bain of the PAYE workers,who never catch a break…..I’m just after been made redundant !! …maybe I should hold up Dublin traffic and complain about my lot….I’d say I’d be arrested before I could get plackard out !!!

so wat if farmers are minted its europe telling us what to not the farmers the farmers are gona have 30percent deducted why should sum other country tell us how we run our show? ??? same with fishery loada bollox get used to this shit ppl slaves to d modren world moneymoneymoney

I have no issue with supporting food security, but the prevailing model in this country is inefficient and the focus is on “keeping the land in the family”. Large scale farms are more efficient, that’s just a fact. This, on the other hand, is about maintaining dynastic land ownership, which is not in the interests of the rest of the populace.

I understand the Farmer’s anxiety at the EU’s decision to freeze, and eventually cut, the CAP grants. However, they need to be realistic. The Agriculture sector in Ireland has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. When CAP was first introduced, Ireland was practically a one-sector economy, that sector being agriculture of course. It made complete sense for the EU to give Ireland these lucrative agriculture grants, as our economy was over-reliant on agriculture. Since then the Ireland of ‘paddy-hats’, wellies, spud-farming and sheep shite has all but vanished. Ireland’s agriculture sector is not a priority any more. We know have high tech industries leading our economy and, as much as it might pain our farming community, this will continue to be the case. Small scale rural farming is dead. Large scale, Ford-like industrial farming is the future, and even that is going to be a minority figure in Ireland’s economy. The EU, from the beginning of the CAP, always planned on eventually eliminating the grant scheme, and the Irish government knew this. CAP was only meant to be a short term measure aimed at propping up a weakening sector, and now, it is coming to an end. The farmers are just going to have to accept the new direction Ireland has taken. Drop the sickles, take your hands out of the cow’s arse and get yourself behind a computer and into an office. Sorry, but, this is just the way it is.

The poor farmers aren’t doing that bad, they were all in Buswells hotel having their dinners when i went by as oppose to eating their hang sandwiches & Tayto’s!!

b nice to no how they did get der shiz tgether.. radio would b a big help i reken

i reken balls would have a bigger part to play
what was that protest that u forgot about that u prob sat in watching the xfactor insted of going to all about anyway