End of an era as Examiner Farming Editor retires

Irish Examiner, Farming Editor, Stephen Cadogan (on left) with John Comer, President of the ICMSA at the second day of the National Ploughing Championships at Ratheniska, Stradbally, Co. Laois. Picture Dan Linehan

The retirement last week of Stephen Cadogan as editor for the past 34 years of what is now the Irish Examiner’s Farming section marks the end of an era that saw dramatic changes in farming and the agri-food sector.

Since 1978, when he joined the then Cork Examiner as an agricultural writer, he chronicled the impact of the Common Agricultural Policy and its various reforms on what is still Ireland’s largest indigenous industry.