Farm leaders to get Fitzgerald award for community service
On Tuesday night in Adare, Co Limerick, their work will be recognised in a commemoration of the late Paddy Fitzgerald, former Munster vice-president of IFA and a former vice-chairman of the Cork Marts IMP Group, who devoted a lifetime to the organisation of farmers, up to his death.
A dairy and livestock farmer at Caherconlish, Co Limerick, Paddy was one of the founder members of the NFA in the 1950s, and became known the length and breath of the country for his energy and sincerity in working towards the betterment of farmers and their families through organisation of the sector to have a strong representative voice.
