Longford farmers to bring their #EnoughisEnough protest campaign to council headquarters

Longford IFA and farmers will hold a protest in advance of today's (Wednesday, February 14) Longford County Council meeting, scheduled to start at 4pm in Áras an Chontae. 

Farmers will assemble outside Templemichael College at 3pm with tractors and people and they will drive down to the Council headquarters at Great Water Street arriving before 3:30.

Longford IFA say they hope to engage with the councillors and deliver a clear message on key farming issues that #EnoughisEnough!

This is the next step in a nationwide campaign following yesterday's IFA National Council meeting and outlined by IFA President Francie Gorman.

This is the first protest in the country in the next phase of this campaign.

It will be the second protest inside a fortnight as farmers from around the county also converged on the N4 bypass on the edge of Longford town on Thursday, February 1 in a show of solidarity for farmers across Europe.

Longford IFA Chairperson John Sheridan told the Leader, “The general mood is that farmers are very angry. They are very down. They have been inundated with environmental schemes not worth the paper they are written on.”