National Co-Op Farm Relief Services honours retiring board member

THE National Co-Op Farm Relief Services (FRS) has paid tribute to retiring board member Bill O’Brien.

A former Teagasc CAO for Kerry (which his colleagues described as “a great honour for a Corkman”), O’Brien completed his MAgrSc thesis on the need for relief milking services in Ireland.

FRS Network chief executive, Peter Byrne, said: “Bill had a very significant input into the decision to rationalise the organisation over recent years, culminating in the amalgamation of 13 FRS Co-ops into the new FRS Network Amalgamated Societies Ltd.