The three candidates for the IFA presidency, John Coughlan, Tim Cullinan and Angus Woods, were tackled on the rise of the Beef Plan Movement at a joint hustings for Louth and Monaghan. Beef Plan’s northeast regional chair Michael Rafferty was at the meeting and posed a number of questions. Rafferty believed the IFA had failed to deliver on its promise to reform four years ago, and he said the candidates had played a part in that.