Rekindling the vision of PJ Power

A BRIGHT 25-year-old businessman hopped into his small white sports car in Cork City one Friday night in 1961 and drove to Mallow over a corkscrew road with 108 bends.

Tony O’Reilly, already a household name because of his rugby exploits with Ireland and the Lions, was on his way to meet PJ Power, the visionary leader of the Irish dairy industry whose exports at the time were worth a mere £7m.

That hush-hush meeting would lead to the dairy sector being changed forever and would give it a legacy as relevant today as it was 53 years ago