Doughty Dillon keeps delivering

BEING president of the Irish Farmers Association is a roller-coaster job made more demanding

But the current leader, John Dillon, now coming towards the end of his first two-year term in office, took to the task like a duck to water and with a lot more energy.

The first Limerick man elected to the post, he has a style that combines a reputation for being a tough and tenacious negotiator, with a tendency for public protest when all else fails.