{"id":363636,"date":"2026-03-02T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/363636\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T08:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T08:34:14","slug":"fionnan-sheahan-after-riling-irish-farmers-agriculture-minister-martin-heydon-now-has-to-get-them-back-down-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/363636\/","title":{"rendered":"Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan: After riling Irish farmers, Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon now has to get them back down the hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Noisy IFA protests against Bord Bia chairman ignore the bigger threats coming down the track\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon appears to be giving the Irish Farmers\u2019 Association a face-saving out. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/24b151b3-a95c-4fea-8943-8b22f6258a4c.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Agriculture Minister Martin Heydon appears to be giving the Irish Farmers\u2019 Association a face-saving out. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Normally, the focus of attention is on the other side of the road. The imposing US embassy is a landmark of Dublin 4. Designed in the 1950s, it has been a focal point of diplomatic activity since it opened in the 1960s, just after John F Kennedy was assassinated. Among the incidents it has witnessed was a vehicle in Barack Obama\u2019s cavalcade getting stuck on the ramp exiting the car park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But right across Pembroke Road in Ballsbridge, there\u2019s even more drama going on as five farmers camp out inside the headquarters of Bord Bia. Farm groups, mainly the Irish Farmers\u2019 Association (IFA), want Bord Bia chairman Larry Murrin to step down after it emerged that his company, Dawn Farms, has been importing Brazilian beef. The farmers say this creates a conflict of interest for Murrin because Bord Bia\u2019s role is to promote Irish food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noisy IFA protests against Bord Bia chairman ignore the bigger threats coming down the track Agriculture Minister Martin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,356,18,4893,169245,13,14,18613,6,19,31231,17,11,12,15,16,30839,5765,5,1255,7,8],"class_list":["post-363636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-donald-trump","tag-eire","tag-eu","tag-farming-politics","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-fionnan-sheahan","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ifa","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-martin-heydon","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-tariffs","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116158665039667685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}