ICMSA chief making the farm sustainable for the family

Martin Coughlan talks with John Comer, the president of the ‘family farm organisation’, ICMSA

MY first impression of Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association president John Comer is of a youthful, rugged, striking man with an air of authority and quiet confidence.

I met him at the ICMSA headquarters in Limerick, a former family home which retains an outward comfortable domestic appearance, despite its new function as Ireland’s second largest farmers’ organisation.