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The Ombudsman has returned €25,000 to a Kerry farmer.

The Ombudsman has returned €25,000 to a Kerry farmer.

The Ombudsman has returned €25,000 to a Kerry farmer.

Hundreds of farmers will be reviewing fines and clawbacks by the Department of Agriculture following a decision by the Ombudsman's office to return €25,000 to a Kerry farmer forced by the Forest Service to stump up years of payments after his woodland was destroyed by flooding.

"This case should never had gone to the Ombudsman," said the IFA's forestry chairman, Michael Fleming.


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