Shock death of Maurice O’Brien

AGRICULTURE and business sectors have lost a visionary figure with the death of Maurice O’Brien, Derrynahool, Mitchelstown.

Mr O’Brien was a member of a family that played an important role in the co-operative movement in the Mitchelstown area.

In his own right, he became one of the country’s most successful pig farmers, scaling up to a 3,500 sow herd.