Egg producer picks up top design award and raises funds for cancer

PERSONAL loss has an unlikely link to a prestigious international design award for Cavan-based free-range egg producer Clonarn Clover.

When a packaging designer put Clonarn’s new white, free-range O’Egg in a pink box, owner and managing director Margaret Farrelly instantly thought of her sister Mary, who died of a brain tumour 30 years ago, aged 18.

They contacted Action Breast Cancer (ABC), for whom pink is such an important colour. While Clonarn Clover is a small producer and the proposed donation from sales was unlikely to be huge, ABC was delighted to partner the family. Margaret’s husband Leo also lost his mother and a sister to cancer.