Cork members won all three prizes at this year’s Macra na Feirme/Bank of Ireland National Leadership Awards, recognising their leadership skills within their clubs and the wider community.

Kieran O’Dowd, Sligo, has been re-elected national chairman of Macra, with Michelle O’Callaghan from Cork and Sean Finan from Roscommon taking up the roles of national secretary and national treasurer.

It’s another busy weekend coming up in Macra.

WITH four of the seven finalists, Co Cork must be odds-on to be celebrating after the AIB Club of the Year final at the annual conference and rally in Cork on the October bank holiday weekend.

FIFTEEN clubs have been named as the elite group of semi-finalists in the AIB Club of the Year competition.

LEADERSHIP distinction awards were presented to 54 Macra members during the Bank of Ireland-sponsored county officer training.

SEANDUN in Cork is preparing for the National Macra na Feirme Rally Conference, sponsored by Dairygold, which will be held in the Radisson Blue Hotel, Little Island, during the October Bank Holiday weekend.

MACRA na Feirme’s strength is its members, according to its newly elected president, Michael Gowing, a 30-year-old dairy and beef farmer from Portlaoise.

IT is important in today’s environment to encourage and recognise people who are providing leadership in their own communities, Macra na Feirme president Catherine Buckley has stressed.

CARRIGALINE, from the Seandun region of Cork, has been chosen as the Macra na Feirme AIB club of the year.