Challenges in sustaining Galway family farms to be debated at special meeting

Published 9th Apr 2014, 06:25 GMT

Galway Bay fm newsroom - The challenges in sustaining family farms in rural Galway is to be the focus of a special meeting in Tuam this week.

The event is organised by Galway West TD Eamon Ó Cuív who is also Fianna Fail's Spokesperson on Agriculture.Deputy Ó'Cuív says the new deal on Common Agricultural Policy which was brokered by Minister Simon Coveney this year is bad for family farms in the west.The meeting takes place on Friday (Apr 11) at the West Wing in Tuam at 8.30pm.Deputy O'Cuiv is urging all family farmers across the county to come and have their concerns listened to.