Agri-food sector has ‘bright future’

THE agri-food sector can look forward with confidence, secure in the knowledge that it can supply quality products on a competitive basis, the former EU Farm Commissioner Ray MacSharry declared in Dublin last night.

He was delivering the inaugural Michael Dillon Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Kerry Group and organised by the Guild of Agricultural Journalists.

It commemorates broadcaster and writer, Michael Dillon, who was the voice of Irish farming in a career that lasted 40 years until his death, aged 70, in 1992.