Gilmartin elected to succeed Thompson as president of the ICSA

SLIGO farmer Gabriel Gilmartin has been elected president of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA).

He won by a margin of just six votes over the only other candidate, Martin Coughlan, a beef farmer from Carrick-on-Suir, Co Waterford.

The keenly contested election took place at a meeting of the ICSA national executive in Portlaoise.