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Limerick Senator calls for additional support for farm safety and well-being By Live95 News Team via Getty Images A Limerick Senator is calling on the Minister for Agriculture to ensure farmers receive additional support for farm safety and farm well-being.
Fine Gael s Maria Byrne raised the issue in the Seanad this week and asked for farmer safety and farmer well-being to be included as part of the new reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy.
Senator Byrne was recently re-elected to the Seanad s Agricultural Panel.
She says farmers need assurances that support will be available to them.
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Search By Live95 News Team via Getty Images A former Limerick mayor says she is looking forward to campaigning with the Fine Gael candidate for the role of directly elected Mayor of Limerick.
No party candidate has announced their intention to run for the role as of yet, but it is expected that Limerick could have a mayor by October.
Limerick was the only city that voted in favour of electing its own mayor in a plebiscite in 2019.
Maria Byrne who has recently been nominated by Fine Gael s Executive Council to contest the forthcoming Seanad Agricultural Panel bye-election says she wants to see Fine Gael get over the line.