The first in a series of reports on aspects of the year 1990. Joe O'Brien looks at the major events in Ireland's farming and the food industry in what was one of the most eventful years ever for agriculture.
Report shows Larry Goodman addressing a meeting.
Larry Goodman’s home.
Meat being processed and packaged in a plant.
Larry Goodman with Charles Haughey.
Goodman getting out of a helicopter.
Beef processing plant.
Graphics on the collapse of Goodman International.
Cargo being loaded on to a ship.
Leinster House.
Goodman examiner, Peter Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick addressing a news conference.
Photograph of Labour Party Leader, Dick Spring.
Investment Bank of Ireland.
Bankers leaving the bank.
Livestock auction.
The Four Courts in Dublin.
Cow running around suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease).
Research laboratory and scientists examining a cow’s brain.
Minister for Agriculture, Michael O’Kennedy, European Commissioner for Agriculture, Ray MacSharry, and John Gummer, British Secretary for Agriculture, at a European Commission meeting.
Butcher cutting beef.
Stocks of Irish beef in intervention.
Farmers' protest.
Tom O’Dwyer, Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association (ICMSA), speaking at the protest rally.
Cow getting milked.
Graphics on dairy co-operative mergers.
Merger meeting.
Ballieborough Cooperative in Cavan.
Farmers participating in an anti-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) protest outside the United States Embassy Dublin.
Alan Gillis, Irish Farm Association (IFA) Leader, speaking.
Clayton Yeutter, United States Secretary of Agriculture, and Ray MacSharry during GATT talks.
Field with sheep and cattle.
Graphics on disadvantaged areas in Ireland.
Farmers meeting.
United Farmers Association meeting.
Farmer with cattle.
The reporter is Joe O’Brien.
