Kildare South

They're the richest businessmen in the world who have been found time and time again to be pushing their profit over people's health.

I live in a place called Maganey in South Kildare.

At the moment, Kildare Council are proposing to put one of the biggest solar farms in the country here.

This solar farm will surround my father's house on three sides, the family house, and will destroy a lot of grade one farming land.

Minister for Agriculture Martin Hayden has emerged as the biggest farming landowner among TDs and Senators, an investigation by the Irish Times has found.

Hayden, a Fine Gael TD for Kildare South since 2011, owns 245 acres of land in Kildare and Leash.

and estimated to be worth between £2.2 million and £4.5 million, based on average non-residential land values for 2025, and published by the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, an agricultural organisation, CHAGUS.

And the paper goes on to detail the other...