Stay-at-home lifestyle is a main attraction in switch to dairying for Stephen Buttimer

When a Lisavaird Co-op milk lorry arrived on the Buttimer family farm near Ballineen in west Cork on April 1, milk was collected from the farm for the first time.

Not the first time this year, not the first time this century. It was the first time ever.

In the 70 years that the farm has been in the Buttimer name, no cow had been milked. The Buttimers were beef and tillage farmers. However on April 1, 2015, all this changed.