Cattle marts report: Macroom lives up to name of never rearing a foolish mart trader

“The town of Macroom never raised a fool” — so they say. And the farmers around Macroom are clearly no fools either when it comes to rearing good weanlings.

On Saturday last, Macroom mart had what could only be described as a massive showing of weanlings for its show and sale. The numbers were massive, the quality was massive.

The mart was packed with cattle, a point not lost on Macroom mart vice-chairman, Michael Murphy: “Some people warned us years ago when we made the move from Tuesday to Saturday, that the cattle sale would suffer. They told us that it would be the finish of the mart.”