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Former IFA chief gets new Euro role

THE new president of the co-ops umbrella body in Europe is Donal Cashman, a former president of both the Irish Co-operative Organisation Society and the Irish Farmers’ Association.

Fri, 18 Nov, 2005 - 00:00

He was elected for a two-year term in Brussels yesterday by COGECA, representing 40,000 EU agricultural co-operatives.

Mr Cashman and his son runs a dairy farm at White’s Cross, Co Cork.

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