The current Holy Trinity of rural Ireland - Beef, Brexit and Broadband - was up for discussion on this week's Floating Voter which came live from the 2019 Ploughing Championships in Carlow.

Joining INM Political Editor, Kevin Doyle, was Michael Ring, Minister for Rural Development, Billy Kelleher, Fianna Fail MEP, and Joe Healy, IFA President.

On the beef protests, Minister Ring called on farmers to give the agreement a chance, 'Let's see what the factories are going to produce now....this cannot go on for the country'.

Likewise, the IFA's Joe Healy said that the blockades have to end, 

'Regardless if people agree with it [the agreement] or not it was the best deal we could get, but now we're urging farmers to move away from the blockades and put the ball into the factories' court and see what they do.'

For more from the Floating Voter visit the show page at:

https://www.independent.ie/podcasts/the-floating-voter/