Consumers are being warned that the cost of food is set to rise even further.

The warning comes after new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) revealed a surge in the prices that processors are paying farmers.

CSO statisticians said that overall prices paid to farmers for their produce in the year to March had jumped by 20pc, leading to fears that food inflation will get worse.

For more on this Alan Morrissey has been speaking with Patrick O’Donohue, Co-Owner of the Monks Restaurant in Ballyvaughan and Eddie Punch, Former General Secretary of the ICSA and Cratloe Farmer.

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