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Tom Byrne of Aughrim has been named as the new Wicklow IFA chair. He takes up the reins as chairperson of the local farmers' organisation from Chris Hill, whose term in the role recently finished. Mr Byrne served as vice-chair of Wicklow IFA for four years and is also the chair of the Wicklow Uplands Council. Speaking to this paper, Mr Byrne says he is 'very happy' to take up the mantle of chair of Wicklow IFA. 'I feel I have something to give to the farming community and to represent the farmers of Wicklow. I've spent all my life farming and have worked with the IFA since I started.'
SHARING OPTIONS: The blaze was close to a Coillte forest, as well as a number of private dwellings. \ Ellen Devitt Durkin Farmers have been called on to cease setting illegal fires as the open period for burning gorse has now ended. Approximately 50ha of uplands were destroyed in a blaze that spread rapidly across Scarr Mountain in Co Wicklow, overlooking Lough Dan on Sunday, 7 March. Areas of the Slieve Bloom Mountains in Co Laois were also damaged on the same day by a wildfire. Speaking at the site of the blaze in Wicklow, Minister of the State for H...