Monday, December 12, 2011

Farmers fighting to keep Christmas shoppers local

By ALISON O'RIORDAN

Sunday November 23 2008




The fight against the 'flight to Newry' has been launched by a countryside alliance as busloads of shoppers head for the border towns of Northern Ireland for the first recessionary Christmas spree in 20 years.

The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has formed an umbrella group of local organisations to persuade shoppers to 'Go Local' and put saving their own towns ahead of landing cross-border savings.

But just as the campaign was

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