Farmers honour veteran Joe Clarke

ONE of Munster’s best known judges of livestock was honoured by his many friends in farming last week when he celebrated his 90th birthday.

The many farming organisations with which former farm manager Joe Clarke has been associated came together last Friday night last to wish him a happy 90th.

A native of Ballina, Co Tipperary, Mr Clarke, who now lives at Castletroy, Limerick, was manager of the 1,000 acre Maxwell Estate, before taking over a similar appointment at the Carton Estate, Co Kildare, where he managed Lord Brocket’s herds of pedigree cattle and sheep.