18 August 1997 EGYPT TALKS TO IRELAND ABOUT RESUMING LIVE CATTLE TRADE IRISH live cattle exports to Egypt could restart soon. Farming leaders and Egyptian officials are meeting today in a

bid to lift the ban on live cattle triggered by the BSE crisis. The stumbling-block has been slaughtering methods. The Irish government has offered to pay for and install equipment needed to

remove and destroy specified risk material in an Egyptian abbatoir.