New IFA President Joe Healy: We need to work from the ground up

Noel Baker talks to farmer Joe Healy, new president of the IFA, on the problems facing the organisation in the wake of the debate over the salary paid to its former general secretary

YOU could say that Joe Healy, the Galwayman who is the newly elected president of the IFA, has a winning pedigree.

The father of three from Athenry is a former All-Ireland sheep shearing champion and at one point was able to free a sheep from its wool in a cool 90 seconds. It’s fair to say that resolving the issues within the IFA might take a little longer.