Supermarkets will have to lower their margin or up their prices, as the cost of on-farm commodities increases.

IFA Poultry Chair, Andy Boylan, says the cost increases are at a "rate not seen in half a generation".

Frank Brady will officially succeed outgoing regional chair Nigel Renaghan at the IFA AGM next month.

Brady will officially succeed the outgoing regional chair Nigel Renaghan at the IFA AGM next month.

This is the fourth case of avian influenza detected within commercial flocks in the Republic of Ireland this year.

However, the public is asked to be mindful that the farmer responsible could be in a vulnerable category.

The warning comes after a third case was detected in an egg-laying flock in the Oram area yesterday.