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Aug 2023
16m 7s

Farmers and climate change

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Up for discussion in our Big 11 debate, is the growing trend of climate change skepticism in Ireland's rural farming sector. We hear from Jackie Cahill Fianna Fail TD for Tipperary Chair of the Oireachtas Agriculture Committee and also John Gibbons Environmental Journalist. 
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