Agri-Business
Declassified files: Have any lessons been learned from the ’90s ‘bread wars’?
Cunning Irish bakers outwitted the authorities in the north, leaving officials powerless to protect domestic suppliers in so-called ‘bread wars’,...
PRONI
Beef
Declassified files: ‘Fish was on the plate, but beef (and BSE) were on the menu’
A meeting between British and Irish ministers at Maryfield, the base of the Anglo-Irish Secretariat, descended into jibes over how...
N.Ireland
Declassified files reveal fears axing headage payments would disproportionately affect Catholic farmers
Officials in Northern Ireland feared swapping headage payments for area-based payments would have a disproportionate impact on Catholic farmers, newly declassified...
Agri-Business
Declassified files: Have any lessons been learned from the ’90s ‘bread wars’?
Cunning Irish bakers outwitted the authorities in the north, leaving officials powerless to protect domestic suppliers in so-called ‘bread wars’,...