'We have had to come here in the cold and beg for out fair share'

Former IFA Poultry Chair and Carrickmacross farmer Andy Boylan says farmers feel unloved by the big retailers.

Andy Boylan says the protest will continue until they get a response from the supermarket.

Measures will be lifted in the remaining restriction zone next week if there are no further outbreaks.

IFA Poultry Chair, Andy Boylan, says the cost increases are at a "rate not seen in half a generation".

The warning comes after a third case was detected in an egg-laying flock in the Oram area yesterday.

Four cases of the highly contagious H5N1 strain were detected in wild birds around the country in the past week.

The Minister clarified that the criteria states the sector must be able to show that employees can't be sourced within Ireland or the EU.