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The largest farmers demonstration in more than fifteen years has
taken place in Dublin.
Up to twenty thousand people marched to the Dail to protest against
reforms of the Common Agriculture Policy and proposed Budget
cuts in December.
Farmers are calling on the Government to work to maintain the current
CAP allocation for Ireland of 1.6 billion euro a year.
The Irish Farmers Association President John Bryan – who addressed
the crowd on Kildare Street – says farm families must also be spared from
Budget cuts in December:
