. . . but producers in Leitrim wouldn’t agree

FARMING in Leitrim will disappear in the next generation.

One of a dwindling number of full-time farmers left in the county made this grim prediction during the Teagasc Rural Development conference held recently in Mullingar, Co Westmeath.

Pat Monahan and his wife Mary live in Cloone. They have three teenage girls. He has been a full-time farmer all his life and is in enterprises such as suckler cows and sheep. He said he had seen many changes in farming in Leitrim, which he described as a relatively poor county that was always over-dependent on agriculture.