Feargal Quinn: Ireland should be the Silicone Valley of milk production

HEALTH benefits from drinking milk for people aged 65+ represent a huge sales and marketing opportunity all across the European Union for Irish dairy producers, says Senator Feargal Quinn.

The Superquinn founder told those attending the National Dairy Council annual conference that the dairy industry, with its calcium and protein content, is ideally placed to provide the nutritional boost which Ireland and the EU’s increasingly ageing community requires.

Mr Quinn said: “My grandmother-in-law, who turned 100 last November, loves a glass of milk; even better if there’s a drop of whiskey in it. In France and Belgium, people don’t drink milk because they only have UHT milk available to them in shops.