There weren’t too many reasons for Corkonians to celebrate in Croke Park last Sunday, but there was plenty to cheer about the same day in Tipperary as Brid Cooney, from Cecilstown in north Cork, became the 43rd International Miss Macra.

It was in the mid-eighties when one Anne Herbert was reputed to be enjoying a meal in a San Francisco restaurant when she was suddenly inspired.

THE race is on to find the successor to Catherine Buckley as national president of Macra na Feirme.