{"id":282746,"date":"2026-02-05T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282746\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:50:10","slug":"larry-murrin-hits-out-at-behaviour-of-ifa-members-occupying-bord-bia-reception-as-he-appears-before-oireachtas-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/282746\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Murrin hits out at \u2018behaviour of IFA members occupying Bord Bia reception\u2019 as he appears before Oireachtas committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Dawn Foods CEO hits back at \u2018double standards\u2019 accusation, pointing out that three quarters of a million tonnes of animal feed is imported into Ireland from Mercosur countries \u2013 \u2018It suggests to me that the double standards allegation applies to Dawn Farm Foods but not to farming\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Larry Murrin, chief executive of Dawn Farms and Bord Bia Chair. Photo: Douglas O'Connor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/da0468c4-6656-4aa3-a721-36d050c819a4.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Larry Murrin, chief executive of Dawn Farms and Bord Bia Chair. Photo: Douglas O&#8217;Connor<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The chair of Bord Bia Larry Murrin has told the Oireachtas Agriculture Committee that he has \u2018never been conflicted\u2019 in his role as chair of the organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Murrin, who is also the CEO of Dawn Farms has appeared before the committee after controversy erupted in recent weeks after it emerged that the company has sourced beef from Brazil previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Dawn Foods CEO hits back at \u2018double standards\u2019 accusation, pointing out that three quarters of a million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-282746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}