Part-timer is top student

A 24-YEAR-OLD Laois man yesterday became the first part-time farmer to win the FBD Student of the Year award.

John Brennan was chosen from 700 graduates of the Teagasc training programme for young entrants to agriculture and the agri-industry.

He runs a 40 hectares (100 acres) suckler beef farm at Ballickmoyler, Co Laois, and also works full-time as an assistant branch manager with Glanbia.