Growing up, Eamonn Taaffe’s life was defined by difference. What made him as a Clare native this and what made them, those from over the Galway border that backs onto his family house, that.

A family tradition in Pure Friesian breeding over four generations came under the spotlight at the recent IHFA Pure Friesian Open Day, which featured a herd averaging 6,696kg at 4.38 % fat and 3.51% protein, without following the Holstein route.