Calls for more financial support for pig farmers

The government should be providing more cash to pig farmers in “dire” need.

That’s according to a Midlands North West MEP.

According to the Irish Farmers Association, other European countries have used post-pandemic funding to increase aid to their farmers.

The IFA says farmers are facing “spiralling costs” which are outside their control.

MEP, Chris MacManus, claims Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue is “asleep at the wheel”: