Generations of commitment to Irish dairy
Con Scully, former president of ICMSA, relaxing at home overlooking Red Strand, with his wife Jody and dog Kobe, near Ardfield, Clonakilty Co Cork.
Government reluctance to give dairy farmers a crucial increase in milk payments - because they believed it would increase the cost of living for city dwellers - was the catalyst for the establishment of one of the country’s most successful lobby groups.
Back in the late 1940s and 1950, Con Scully’s father Frank, a West Cork dairy farmer and father-of-five, was among those campaigning for a better price for milk in a harsh economic climate.
