Co-operative movement presents Boylan with Plunkett Award

THE Irish co-operative movement has presented Cavan farmer and dairy industry leader Dessie Boylan with the Plunkett Award.

It is presented annually to an individual who is regarded as having made an outstanding contribution to the co-operative movement in Ireland.

Mr Boylan is a former president of the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (ICOS), which represents over 150 co-ops with a combined 150,000 individual members, 12,000 employees in Ireland and overall business turnover of some €10 billion.