The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has accused an environmental group of being “anti-development” and of “condemning hundreds of young people to emigration” by its opposition to planned fish farms in West Cork and off the Aran Islands. According to the IFA, Friends of the Irish Environment (FIE) and “other anti-development lobby groups” have condemned “dozens of coastal communities to a slow economic demise by delaying vital inward investment by calling in the eurocrats to strangle fish farm development”…
Irish Examiner, 05/12/13. Read the full article ‘IFA slams environmental group as ‘anti-development’‘.
